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by J. Zhu | Oct 13, 2009 | Education, Issues, Press Releases
(Released October 13, 2009) Press Release: The Alliance for Quality Education and the Public Policy & Education Fund released a report today that evaluates the equity impacts of the Contract for Excellence on school funding in New York City. Click here to download...
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by J. Zhu | Oct 13, 2009 | Budget and Taxes, Education, Issues, Reports, Reports
(Released October 13, 2009) The Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) court decisions found that many students in New York City were not being provided access to the “sound basic education” that is their right under the state constitution. In response, the governor and the...
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by J. Zhu | Sep 15, 2009 | Budget and Taxes, Education, Issues, Racial Justice, Reports, Reports, Reports
(Released September 15, 2009) Long Island schools are well known for quality education, but in reality there is a wide range of differences between the educational resources and the student outcomes in school districts on Long Island. Long Island is home to some of...
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by J. Zhu | Mar 3, 2009 | Budget and Taxes, Education, Health Care, Issues, Racial Justice, Reports, Reports, Reports, Reports
(Released March 3, 2009) This report examines the impact of the Executive Budget on people of color in several major policy areas: education, higher education, health care, human services, and criminal and juvenile justice. (It is therefore a snapshot of a few major...
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by J. Zhu | Aug 15, 2008 | Education, Issues, Racial Justice, Reports, Reports
(Released August 15, 2008) This report sought to evaluate recent funding trends and performance of New York City schools. The report found evidence that the funding gap between schools with the highest and lowest concentrations of student poverty has grown larger over...
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by J. Zhu | Feb 14, 2008 | Budget and Taxes, Education, Issues, Racial Justice, Reports, Reports, Reports
(Released February 14, 2008) For fourteen years the Campaign for Fiscal Equity school-funding lawsuit faced a series of appeals and delays that stymied fair school funding reform. The New York State Court of Appeals ruled in the CFE case that the state was failing to...
