AFC 致力于改变教育政策，以便公立学校系统能够服务于 全部 儿童有效。我们发布政策报告和数据分析，在市和州两级作证，在媒体上发声，让人们关注我们所服务的学生和家庭面临的挑战，并与其他倡导者、家长、青少年和教育工作者一起呼吁改变。
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Advocates for Children, along with more than 30 other organizations, sent a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio calling on him to provide busing for kindergarten through sixth grade students in foster care.
纽约儿童倡导者 (AFC) 执行董事金·斯威特 (Kim Sweet) 针对纽约市教育局发布的 2020-2024 财年五年资本计划提案发表了以下声明。
AFC testified before the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Education regarding the current state of health, mental health, and physical education programs, services, and instruction in New York State’s schools. Our testimony discusses the need for the expansion of school-based mental health services and evidence-based approaches to student behavior.
Advocates for Children testified before the City Council Committee on Education about the importance of improving the school transportation system, especially for students with disabilities, students in foster care, and students in temporary housing, and in support of a bill to provide real-time GPS bus location data to parents.
2018 年 10 月的数据简报发现，纽约市不到五分之一的学校被教育部归类为“完全无障碍”。该报告敦促纽约市利用即将出台的资本计划实现一个雄心勃勃且可实现的目标——到 2024 年使三分之一的学校完全无障碍。
AFC sent a letter to Chancellor Carranza regarding start-of-school problems with busing. The letter shared a number of cases that are illustrative of what families, especially families of students with disabilities, routinely experience.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Public Safety and Committee on Education regarding a proposal to establish a school emergency preparedness task force and a resolution calling for one guidance counselor and social worker for every 250 students and at least one guidance counselor and social worker per school.
ARISE 联盟 (由 AFC 协调) 和包容性教育家长组织 (PIE) 的成员致信纽约市长比尔·德布拉西奥 (Bill de Blasio)，要求市政府在 2020-2024 财年学校建设管理局五年资本计划中纳入一项重大投资，以使至少三分之一的学校能够向身体残疾的学生、家长和教师开放。
AFC submitted comments in response to the New York State Department of Health’s proposed changes to the state Early Intervention Program regulations.
Advocates for Children of New York submitted comments to the New York State Education Department on proposed amendments to the regulations regarding New York’s Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) accountability system. Our comments discuss the proposed definition of “out-of-school suspension rate” as well as the State’s method for calculating chronic absenteeism.