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$30 Million Federal Grant to Create Six Magnet High Schools Across Manhattan and Bronx

Laboratory School of Finance and Technology, a CollegeBound Initiative partner school, is one of six NYC public high schools selected for federal magnet school funding….

Student Voices: Joining an Affinity Group Showed Me I Didn’t Have to Choose Between Identities

Alexander C. is a senior at Student Leadership Network’s CBI partner school, East Side Community High School. Student Voices: Joining an Asian student group showed…

Forbes: Meet The World’s Top Companies For Women 2023

Forbes ranked The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) number two on its list of the world’s top companies for women. It cites ELC’s long standing partnership…

Empowering Young Women One Step at a Time

Step team students from the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women (BLSYW), an affiliate of our Young Women’s Leadership Network, shared their moves on a…

Student Voices 2023-24: Meet Chalkbeat’s Newest Fellows

Two Student Leadership Network high school students will chronicle their senior year as 2023-24 Student Voices Fellows for the education news outlet Chalkbeat. Alex C….

The Young Women’s Leadership Schools and ELC: Advancing Possibilities for Girls

Published by The Estée Lauder Companies on October 12, 2023 At The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), we know the possibilities are endless when we listen…

‘Whether you like it or not it’s here.’ Educator, expert weigh pros and cons of AI

By Elly Morillo and News 12 StaffBroadcast on News 12 The Bronx on September 28, 2023 With the world’s introduction to artificial intelligence, there may…

NY Times Critic’s Pick: ‘Purlie Victorious’ Throws a Comic Funeral for Racism

Kara Young, a two-time Tony award nominee, 2022 Student Leadership Network (Em)Power Breakfast Honoree, and alumna of The Young Women’s Leadership School, shines in the Broadway revival of ‘Purlie Victorious’.

Break Dancing Fostered Black and Brown Unity. Some of Its Pioneers Worry of Erasure.

Gabrielle Chenault, alumna of The Young Women’s Leadership School of Queens and a contributor at L.A. Times, shares the history and evolution of breakdancing. Published…

To Test the A.I. Learning Hype, I Visited Classrooms

By Natasha SingerPublished in The New York Times on September 10, 2023 In January, Marisa Shuman, a computer science teacher at The Young Women’s Leadership…

A Student Has a Seat on the Powerful LAUSD Board of Education, but with a Twist

By Delilah Bruner, Photo by Dean Musgrove Originally published in Los Angeles Daily News on June 9, 2023 Karen R., 17, often advocates for her…

Out of the Box Solutions for Hiring During a Teacher Shortage

By Allison Persad, EdD, Principal of The Young Women’s Leadership School of AstoriaPublished in National Association of Secondary School Principals on August 17, 2023 The…