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Hood Code is an organization that provides free coding classes to students who live in New York City’s public housing. These apartments are home to more than half a million low-income families ...
The Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corp., also referred to as UMEZ, is a non-profit organization that seeks to revitalize economically deprived communities by using public funds and tax incentives as catalysts for private investment. UMEZ’s mission is to sustain the economic revitalization of all communities of Upper Manhattan ...
Charles Bernard Rangel (/ ˈ r æ ŋ ɡ əl /, RANG-gəl; born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. representative for districts in New York City from 1971 to 2017.
In New York City, a planned congestion pricing scheme is charge vehicles traveling into or within the central business district of Manhattan. This disincentivizing fee, intended to cut down on traffic congestion and pollution, was first proposed in 2007 and included in the 2019 New York state government budget by the New York State Legislature.
Empowerment Schools were a class of schools which claimed to offer more autonomy in choosing a curriculum. Principals of Empowerment Schools had greater autonomy from the DOE in terms of management, instruction, and budget, [1] if they agreed to meet performance goals. The claim was that the transfer of management duties from the DOE to the ...
Academy at Ivy Ridge was an independent privately owned and operated for-profit behavior modification facility in Ogdensburg, New York. It marketed itself as a boarding school. [1] The 2024 Netflix documentary series The Program: Cons, Cults, and Kidnapping documented the conditions at the facility and the lasting impact it had on the people ...
The Partnership for New York City, formerly called the New York City Partnership, [1] is a nonprofit membership organization consisting of a select group of nearly three hundred CEOs ("Partners") from New York City's top corporate, investment and entrepreneurial firms. The organization was founded by David Rockefeller in 1979, with the aim of ...
t. e. Laura Anne Ingraham ( / ˈɪŋɡrəhæm /; born June 19, 1963) [1] [2] is an American conservative television host. [3] She has been the host of The Ingraham Angle on Fox News Channel since October 2017, and is the editor-in-chief of LifeZette. She formerly hosted the nationally syndicated radio show The Laura Ingraham Show.