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10.26.2022 | Chalkbeat NY | A total 104,383 children lacked permanent housing last school year across district and charter schools, according to an annual report released by Advocates For Children New York, an organization that advocates on behalf of the city’s highest needs students. “If...
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10.26.2022 | The New York Times | Jennifer Pringle, who works at Advocates for Children of New York, a nonprofit that collects the data on homeless students annually, said that the system must meet the needs of the newcomers, “while not losing sight of the longstanding issues” facing local children...
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10.26.2022 | Politico (Pro) | “The city needs to address the housing crisis,” Jennifer Pringle, director of AFC’s Project LIT (Learners in Temporary Housing), said in an interview. “The city also must ensure that students who are homeless have access to school and the supports they need to be...
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10.26.2022 | NY Post | “There’s a lot of attention right now on newly arrived families, as there should be, and there were more than 100,000 students experiencing homelessness before this recent influx,” said Jennifer Pringle, who leads Advocates for Children’s work on student homelessness....
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10.26.2022 | NY Daily News | The data, compiled by Advocates for Children of New York, shows that about 104,000 students across the city’s public school system suffered from homelessness in the last school year, which stretched from September 2021 through June 2022. That’s a 3.3% uptick as compared...
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10.26.2022 | City & State | Last school year, there were enough New York City public school students who experienced homlessness to nearly fill Yankee Stadium twice over. And it was the seventh year in a row that was the case. That’s according to a new report from Advocates for Children of New...
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10.26.2022 | NY1 | At least 104,000 students experienced homelessness at some point during the 2021-2022 school year, up from 101,000 the previous year, a report released by Advocates for Children of New York on Wednesday found. More than 29,000 of those 104,000 children stayed in city...
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Students in Temporary Housing and Project LITAdvocates for Children of New York’s (AFC) Project LIT – Learners In Temporary housing, provides individual case assistance, community education, and policy advocacy to improve access to school and supports in school so that students experiencing...
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Page: Policy ReportsPolicy ReportsThis page features all of Advocates for Children of New York’s most recent policy reports on education issues in New York. Please see our archive for policy reports issued prior to 2010.Note: All policy reports are in PDF format and will open in a new window. To view PDF files,...
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Page: Anselmo's StoryWhen Rosa came to AFC in May, her nephew, Anselmo, was struggling in his New York City public high school. Anselmo, a shy, Spanish-speaking 17-year-old who recently immigrated from Ecuador, is partially blind and has a hearing impairment, and he was reading at a second-grade level. Despite all of...
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10.25.2022 | Today, AFC testified before the City Council Committee on Youth Services about the need to ensure that the City’s summer programming provides needed support for all students, including students with disabilities, English Language Learners, and students who are homeless. Read our...
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09.29.2022 | Chalkbeat NY | Some advocates said the scores signal that schools need more resources, particularly for younger children who were learning to read when the pandemic first hit, pointing to the dip in reading pass rates for third and fourth graders. Kim Sweet, executive director of...
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09.28.2022 | The 74 Million | Isabella Rieke, communications manager for Advocates for Children of New York, said the results underscored the urgency behind New York City moving to overhaul its reading program. “While the overall ELA proficiency rate ticked upward, relative to 2019, the...
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09.28.2022 | CBS News | The executive director of Advocates for Children of New York released the following statement: "The test results released today drive home the need for a fundamental overhaul of the City's approach to literacy instruction, as well as the urgency of providing extra support to...
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10.24.2022 | Chalkbeat NY | “We have to be committed for the long haul to get students the support they need, to make sure schools have the resources and training they need to be able to provide that support, and not to just expect that in 2024, we’re done with this,” said Sarah Part, policy...
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10.24.2022 | Politico | “I think given the influx of newly arrived asylum-seeker students who may be arriving after that October 31 deadline, we would hope that the city would allow those schools to receive more funding for every student that enrolls thereafter,” said Rita Rodriguez-Engberg,...
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The 2021–22 school year marked the seventh consecutive year in which more than 100,000 New York City public school students experienced homelessness.
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Page: Leadership & StaffLeadership & StaffKim SweetExecutive Director Matthew LenaghanDeputy DirectorKaren AlvesSenior Education Specialist and Outreach CoordinatorDiana AragundiStaff Attorney, Immigrant Students' Rights ProjectMichael ArringtonLaw Graduate and Education Collaborative Manager, Project AchieveMelissa...
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Students Involved in the Child Welfare SystemAdvocates for Children of New York (AFC)’s Project Achieve works to ensure children in or at risk of placement in foster care receive a quality education. We consult with child welfare professionals to secure needed education supports and services for...
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Highly Mobile Students: Youth in Foster Care, Temporary Housing, or the Juvenile/Criminal Justice SystemReturning visitors to our resource library: If you have downloaded a publication before, we recommend clearing your browsing history before clicking the links below, to ensure you are...