AFC trabaja para cambiar la política educativa para que el sistema de escuelas públicas sirva todo niños de manera efectiva. Publicamos informes de políticas y análisis de datos, testificamos a nivel municipal y estatal, hablamos en la prensa para llamar la atención sobre los desafíos que enfrentan los estudiantes y las familias a las que servimos, y nos unimos a otros defensores, padres, jóvenes y educadores para pedir cambiar.
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AFC submitted comments on the DOE’s proposed changes to Chancellor’s Regulation A-710 about Section 504 accommodations for students with disabilities.
AFC submitted public comments to the U.S. Department of Education on the exclusionary, punitive school discipline and police policies and practices faced by New York City public school students, the disproportionate impact these policies and practices have on Black and Brown students and students with disabilities, and promising alternative practices.
AFC and the ARISE Coalition (coordinated by AFC) testified before the City Council Committee on Finance on the Executive Budget, outlining our priorities for the historic influx of education funding from the state and federal governments. The City must use that funding effectively to provide needed academic and social-emotional support, incorporating outreach to students and families who have not yet re-engaged and specialized support for students who need it.
AFC presentó un testimonio escrito para los Comités de Educación, Bienestar General y Justicia Penal del Concejo Municipal en apoyo de la Introducción. No. 1224, y brindó recomendaciones para garantizar la equidad, la transparencia, el seguimiento y la rendición de cuentas de la educación brindada a niños y jóvenes en entornos ordenados por los tribunales.
La AFC testificó ante los Comités de Educación y Bienestar General del Concejo Municipal sobre la importancia de tener un plan intencional y específico para apoyar a los estudiantes en refugios mientras la Ciudad decide cómo utilizar su histórica afluencia de fondos para la educación.
AFC and the ARISE Coalition (coordinated by AFC) testified before the City Council Committee on Education on the preliminary budget for Fiscal Year 2022, outlining our priorities for an ambitious education initiative to direct the largest one-time federal investment in education in our nation’s history.
AFC testificó ante el Comité de Seguridad Pública del Concejo Municipal de Nueva York en una audiencia sobre el Borrador del Plan Colaborativo de Reforma y Reinvención de la Policía de la Ciudad de Nueva York del alcalde.
AFC submitted comments on proposed changes to Chancellor’s Regulation A-701 regarding school health services.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education in support of proposed legislation regulating the New York City Police Department’s response to students in emotional crisis within public schools, significantly limiting the use of handcuffs on students in emotional crisis, and to express concern about the need for a new vision of school safety, beyond merely transferring the School Safety Division from the NYPD to the Department of Education.
On January 28, 2021, AFC testified 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 schools and help students catch up.
A new school year has started!