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03.09.2021 | The 74 | In November, the nonprofit Advocates for Children filed a federal class action lawsuit against the city on behalf of students with special needs who they say have missed legally mandated services during virtual learning. Fortunately for Hamza and Sumaya, their mother Merieme...
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03.03.2021 | Uptown Radio | One of the bills introduced last month in the City Council seeks to shift safety agents from the NYPD to the Department of Education. Another establishes new procedures for police responding to students in crisis. It would also require more training in de-escalation and...
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03.09.2021 | CBS New York | With that directive set to expire this year, more than 100 advocates signed a letter asking state leaders for another extension. “We know that anytime a barrier comes up for a student, they’re less likely to finish their high school diploma,” said Ashley Grant, with...
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03.09.2021 | Today, more than 100 education and advocacy organizations and over 150 parents, educators, and other individuals from across New York State sent a letter to the New York State Board of Regents and the State Education Department (NYSED), urging them to give students aging out of school...
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Registrarse para un webinar en español >Join AFC’s educational experts to learn more about how to get special education services for students with disabilities as they move from preschool to kindergarten.Browse slides and resources from this webinar series >>Ask an Expert: Turning Five Q...
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Acompañe a expertos en educación de AFC para conocer más acerca de cómo obtener servicios de educación especial para los estudiantes con discapacidades al pasar de prescolar al kínder.Diapositivas y recursos de esta serie de talleres >>Pregúntele a un experto: Charla en vivo sobre...
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Blog: Advocates for Children of NY gives input on chancellor's plans for summer education opportunities03.04.2021 | Bronx News 12 | "The DOE needs to plan now for a summer program that begins to help students catch up, given all the learning loss and trauma they've experienced over the past year," said Randi Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children of New York. "We want to make sure that...
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Blog: Advocates Call on Governor Cuomo to Ensure Schools Get Their Full COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding03.03.2021 | This week, Advocates for Children of New York joined more than 75 organizations to call on Governor Cuomo to ensure that schools get their full COVID-19 federal relief funding and that federal funding supplements, and does not supplant, state funding. The current Executive budget...
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02.26.2021 | The 74 | Advocates for Children Executive Director Kim Sweet also thanked Carranza for his service “especially in the face of unprecedented challenges this past year” and congratulated Porter “on her historic appointment.” “She definitely has her work cut out for her,” Sweet said...
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02.25.2021 | Those changes are a “very big deal,” said Maggie Moroff, a special education policy expert at Advocates for Children, which has handled at least a dozen cases of students being denied access to the program. “It was very unclear what the process was in the beginning.” Crucially,...
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02.26.2021 | Today, Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the announcement that Chancellor Carranza would be stepping down from his position: We thank Chancellor Carranza for his three years of dedicated...
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Page: DiversityDiversityAdvocates for Children of New York strives to employ a diverse staff that furthers our mission of ensuring a high-quality education for New York students who face barriers to academic success, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds.AFC values a diverse workforce, in the sense...
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02.25.2021 | Today, AFC is submitting testimony for the New York State Joint Legislative Public Hearing on the 2021-2022 Executive Budget Health Proposal urging the Legislature to reject proposals to cut state funding for the Early Intervention (EI) program by limiting the services children can...
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02.23.2021 | Chalkbeat NY | Ashley Grant, director of the Postsecondary Readiness Project at the nonprofit Advocates for Children, supported the decision to remove the Regents from graduation requirements. “This is great news and will allow teachers and students to focus on the work of...
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02.23.2021 | NY Daily News | The city Education Department illegally held up court-ordered tuition reimbursement payments for families of private school students with disabilities during the pandemic, a Manhattan federal judge ruled. One high school student with multiple disabilities was...
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02.22.2021 | Univision Nueva York | Mariela Salgado habla con Betty Baez Melo y Maggie Moroff de Advocates for Children of New York sobre estudiantes con discapacidades. "Muchas familias han pasado meses desconectadas, sin saber qué servicios de instrucción recibirán." Rossana Díaz, una...
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Early Childhood Education: Ages 0-5Returning 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 viewing the most up-to-date versions. Note: Unless otherwise...
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01.29.2021 | Chalkbeat | The yet-to-be appointed special master will specifically focus on the city’s compliance with a longstanding legal settlement from 2007 requiring the education department to provide services or payments to families within 35 days of receiving a hearing officer’s order....
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01.28.2021 | Today, AFC is testifying at the New York State Joint Legislative Hearing on the 2021-2022 Elementary and Secondary Education Budget proposal, urging legislators to increase, and not cut, state education funding and ensure schools can use their full COVID-19 relief funding to reopen...
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02.18.2021 | Today, AFC is testifying before the New York City Council Committee on Education in response to the school safety bills in support of proposed legislation regulating the New York City Police Department’s response to students in emotional crisis within public schools, significantly...