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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超过 50,000 名中学生（占纽约市公立中学学生的四分之一）至少被留级一次，超过 8,500 名学生至少被留级三次。尽管他们在学业和社会情感方面有重大需求，但纽约市传统公立学校和特许学校中针对超龄中学生的课程名额不足 450 个。这份 2014 年 9 月的政策报告关注了超龄中学生的独特需求，并为纽约市教育局 (DOE) 提供了改善这一群体成果的建议。
AFC submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Education regarding disproportionality under Section 618(d) of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Our comments focus on racial disproportionality in the identification, placement, and discipline of children with disabilities in New York City.
AFC testified before the New York State Assembly Committee on Education regarding Career and Technical Education (CTE) in New York State. Our testimony discusses considerations A.8189A/S.5966A must address.
AFC submitted testimony to the New York City Council Committee on Education regarding the proposed bill to equip all exit doors in elementary school buildings and buildings accommodating District 75 programs with an alarm system.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education on the need to improve charter school accountability and oversight, particularly with regard to discipline policies and the recruitment, enrollment, and retention of students with disabilities and English Language Learners. AFC supports the Council’s bill calling for reports to the DOE on student demographic data for all co-located schools.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committees on General Welfare, Juvenile Justice, and Women’s Issues about the impact of the FY 2015 Preliminary Budget on early learning programs, and the importance of providing adequate funding for high-quality early childhood education programs for young children from low-income backgrounds.
AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Education and Committee on Women’s Issues in support of New York City’s plan to create a new funding stream to pay for a rapid expansion of Universal Pre-K.
AFC submitted testimony for the New York State Education Budget Hearing, applauding the Governor’s call to make pre-k truly universal, but pointing out that the funding in the budget proposal is insufficient to reach this goal. AFC calls on the Legislature to support Mayor de Blasio’s plan to expand pre-k rapidly in NYC and also makes recommendations regarding the Governor’s preschool special education reform, special education waiver, after-school, and anti-discrimination proposals.
AFC 向纽约州教育部提交了关于纽约州《初等和中等教育法案》（ESEA）灵活性豁免拟议修正案的意见。AFC 对针对残疾学生和英语学习者测试的修正案发表了意见。
本报告由 多种文凭途径联盟由纽约儿童权益倡导者编写的报告探讨了高风险标准化毕业考试给许多学生带来的困难，并强调了对更灵活的考试要求和基于评估的文凭获取途径的需求。