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.
Recursos de políticas
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.
More than 115 Organizations Call for Changes to New York State’s School Funding Formula
Every child in New York State has the right to a sound, basic education—and providing such an education requires adequate and equitable funding. More than 115 organizations are calling on Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature to revamp New York’s outdated school funding formula to ensure schools have the resources necessary to provide a high-quality education to all students, with particular attention to those who have the greatest needs.428 Results Found
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.
Hoy, Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) emitió la siguiente respuesta a la publicación del informe de datos de educación especial del Departamento de Educación de la Ciudad de Nueva York (DOE) para los meses de julio a octubre de 2020, y hasta mediados de enero. 2021.
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.
AFC and the ARISE Coalition (coordinated by AFC) testified before the City Council Committee on Education about the impact of COVID-19 on student learning, outlining essential principles and critical elements that must be included in a comprehensive COVID-19 education recovery effort.
AFC submitted comments to the draft ACS-DOE joint policy on the reporting and investigating of educational neglect.
Este resumen de datos de enero de 2021 examina la fuerte disminución durante la pandemia de COVID-19 en la cantidad de bebés y niños pequeños remitidos al programa de Intervención Temprana (EI) de la ciudad de Nueva York para abordar las preocupaciones sobre su desarrollo. Como resultado de la disminución de las derivaciones, miles de niños pequeños con retrasos en el desarrollo o discapacidades perdieron la oportunidad de recibir una intervención en el momento en que resulta más eficaz.
AFC joined more than 30 organizations in calling on the DOE to fill the more than 20 currently vacant positions dedicated to supporting students who are homeless.
AFC testified before the City Council Committee on Education and Committee on Women and Gender Equity about the related issues of a shortage of preschool special education programs, and the problem of Learning Bridges child care programs excluding children with disabilities.
El Centro de Asistencia Técnica y Educativa para Estudiantes Sin Hogar del Estado de Nueva York (NYS-TEACHS), un proyecto de Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), publicó nuevos datos que muestran que más de 111.000 estudiantes de la ciudad de Nueva York (aproximadamente uno de cada diez niños matriculados) en escuelas distritales o autónomas, fueron identificados como personas sin hogar durante el año escolar 2019-20. En el Bronx, aproximadamente uno de cada seis estudiantes no tenía hogar.