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New York Cares is the largest volunteer network in New York City. The organization works with a base of 30,000 [3] volunteers, and has engaged volunteers in over 8 million hours [4] of service since its inception. New York Cares works with about 1,300 nonprofits and schools, and aims to improve education, meet immediate needs, and revitalize ...
All of these organizations offer various opportunities where parents can volunteer with their kids in a fun and welcoming environment while supporting important causes. Families can choos 10 ...
New York State Electric and Gas (NYSEG) is an electric and gas utility company owned by Avangrid that serves customers in New York. NYSEG was incorporated in 1852 as the Ithaca Gas Light Company. NYSEG was incorporated in 1852 as the Ithaca Gas Light Company.
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) divides the state into nine Joint Management Team (JMT) Regions, excluding New York City. [1] Each JMT contains one or more Regional Information Centers (RIC), which contain one or more Boards of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES), and each BOCES supports several school districts.
NYSERDA’s New York State Electric School Bus Road Map predicts that federal and state funding opportunities should be enough to cover the difference in cost between diesel or gas-powered school ...
The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is the labor union that represents most teachers in New York City public schools. As of 2005, there were about 118,000 in-service teachers and nearly 30,000 [2] paraprofessional educators in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members. In October 2007, 28,280 home day care providers voted to join ...
New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) is a nearly 700,000-member New York state teachers union, affiliated since 2006 with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the AFL–CIO, and the National Education Association (NEA). NYSUT is an umbrella group which provides services to local affiliates in New York state; lobbies on the local, state ...
The great school wars: A history of the New York City public schools (1975), a standard scholarly history online; Ravitch, Diane, and Joseph P. Viteritti, eds. City Schools: Lessons from New York (2000) Ravitch, Diane, ed. NYC schools under Bloomberg and Klein what parents, teachers and policymakers need to know (2009) essays by experts online