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$18 Million Grant Supports Chicago Middle-School Students
To increase the success of middle-school students in Chicago and bolster their chances of graduating high school, The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation with a focus on children and youth, will award a major grant to support a five-school effort over four years. The grant…
Author: PNN Online
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$18 Million Grant Supports Innovative Program to Bolster Success of Middle-School Students in Five Chicago Public Schools
Integrated Services in Schools Program to be managed by LISC/Chicago’s New Communities Program Agencies To increase the success of middle-school students in Chicago and bolster their chances of graduating high school, The Atlantic Philanthropies, an international foundation with a focus on children and youth, will…
Author: LISC Chicago
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Hate Campaigns Can’t Block Overdue Steps Toward Fair Treatment of Immigrants
Barack Obama’s campaign gave hope to millions of immigrants and their leading advocates. Atlantic has been proud to support and stand with these groups in the long campaign for comprehensive immigration reform. But that hope has been strained of late, and it is time to…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Oakland Schools Help Parents Sign Up for Covered California
Antonia Briones (left), an Alameda County Social Services Agency eligibility technician, helps Gabino Pablo (right) with Covered California enrollment as the deadline approaches. (Rachel Dornhelm/KQED) The robocall went out this week to every parent of an Oakland public school student: “Hello! This is the…
Author: The California Report
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Research Links Poor Kids' Stress, Brain Impairment
Original Source By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Children raised in poverty suffer many ill effects: They often have health problems and tend to struggle in school, which can create a cycle of poverty across generations. Now, research is providing what could be crucial clues…
Author: The Washington Post
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Report Sounds Alarm on Child Accidents
by DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. Around the globe, accidents kill 830,000 children — the equivalent of all the children in Chicago — every year, according to a report issued Tuesday by the World Health Organization and Unicef. The report, the first to collect all known…
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UC Regents approve breaking ground on UCSF’s $1.5 billion Mission Bay hospital
CHRIS RAUBER The Regents of the University of California voted Thursday to approve construction of a new $1.52 billion women’s, children’s, and cancer specialty hospital at UC San Francisco’s burgeoning Mission Bay campus. The Regents unanimously approved going ahead with the 289-bed hospital in their Sept. 16 board…
Author: San Francisco Business Times
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Initiative Focuses on Early Learning Programs
The New America Foundation is an Atlantic grantee. by SAM DILLON Tucked away in an $87 billion higher education bill that passed the House last week was a broad new federal initiative aimed not at benefiting college students, but at raising quality in the early…
Author: The New York Times
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Under Age and Alone, Immigrants See a Softer Side of Detention
by ANN FARMER Jose was 14 when he left his home in Oaxaca, Mexico, and paid a smuggler $1,200 to sneak him across the border. He made it to Phoenix and started on a long and familiar odyssey as he scratched out a living, first…
Author: The New York Times
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Understanding Obama's education vision
Original Source From NBC’s Chuck Todd The White House beat is more than just what happens at the Oval Office. We’re doing out best to cover every department and every utterance made by members of President Obama’s Cabinet. To that end, here are the most…
Author: MSNBC First Read
