AFC শিক্ষা নীতি পরিবর্তন করার জন্য কাজ করে যাতে পাবলিক স্কুল সিস্টেম পরিবেশন করে সব শিশুরা কার্যকরভাবে। আমরা নীতি প্রতিবেদন এবং ডেটা বিশ্লেষণ প্রকাশ করি, শহর এবং রাজ্য স্তরে সাক্ষ্য দিই, আমরা যে ছাত্রছাত্রী এবং পরিবারগুলিকে সেবা করি তাদের সামনে যে চ্যালেঞ্জগুলির মুখোমুখি হয় সেগুলির প্রতি দৃষ্টি আকর্ষণ করার জন্য প্রেসে কথা বলি এবং অন্যান্য অ্যাডভোকেট, পিতামাতা, যুবক এবং শিক্ষাবিদদের সাথে যোগদান করি পরিবর্তন.
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Today Advocates for Children testified before the City Council Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disability, Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Disability Services on the importance of the Early Intervention program.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committees on General Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Women’s Issues about the impact of the FY 2015 Preliminary Budget on early learning programs, and the importance of providing adequate funding for high-quality early childhood education programs for young children from low-income backgrounds.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education and Committee on Women’s Issues in support of New York City’s plan to create a new funding stream to pay for a rapid expansion of Universal Pre-K.
AFC submitted testimony for the New York State Education Budget Hearing, applauding the Governor’s call to make pre-k truly universal, but pointing out that the funding in the budget proposal is insufficient to reach this goal. AFC calls on the Legislature to support Mayor de Blasio’s plan to expand pre-k rapidly in NYC and also makes recommendations regarding the Governor’s preschool special education reform, special education waiver, after-school, and anti-discrimination proposals.
AFC testified before the General Welfare and Women’s Issues Committees of the New York City Council regarding the implementation of EarlyLearn NYC. We are discussing the importance of increased funding to ensure that every child can participate in a high-quality early childhood education program.
AFC’s Early Childhood Education Project submitted comments on proposed revisions to the federal Child Care Development Fund regulations. Our suggestions are largely focused on two overarching goals that are of vital importance to the clients we serve: making it easier for low-income families to access subsidized child care so that their children can receive a high-quality early childhood education, and improving the ability of child care programs to serve children with special needs.
AFC testified before the City Council Committee on Finance, urging city leaders to reject shortsighted proposed cuts to early childhood education and after-school programs.
AFC testified before the City Council General Welfare Committee to urge city leaders to reject proposed cuts to early learning programs in New York City.
AFC submitted testimony urging the New York State Legislature to ensure that the state budget protects access to high-quality Early Intervention services that are driven by children’s needs, not by their health insurance coverage.