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Coalition for Equitable Education Funding: Past Activities

About CEEF

2024–25

State budget advocacy

In September 2024, CEEF released a joint statement with our recommendations for changes to the Foundation Aid formula, including adding a per-pupil weight for students in temporary housing and students in the foster system; updating the Regional Cost Index; including funding for students in 3-K and Pre-K, who are currently left out of the formula entirely; and providing resources to implement the State’s new class size requirements for New York City.

Our activities in 2024–25 also included launching an action alert so that individuals could contact state elected leaders, holding a teach-in for parents and community members, presenting at community events, meeting with key state legislators, organizing a legislative briefing, and testifying at the Joint Legislative Hearing on the Executive Budget Proposal for Elementary and Secondary Education.

City budget advocacy

CEEF successfully advocated for the Fiscal Year 2026 New York City budget to include long-term funding for a number of important education programs, including 3-K, preschool special education classes, community schools, arts programming, and high-impact tutoring, as well as continued funding for one more year for other critical education programs.

Cobertura mediática

2024–25

2023–24

In 2023–24, what was then the Emergency Coalition to Save Education Programs successfully advocated for the continuation of more than $800 million worth of education programs, services, and staff positions that had been at risk of elimination due to the expiration of federal COVID-19 stimulus funding and one-year city funds.

Cobertura mediática

2023–24