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 of New York (AFC) issued the following response to the NYC Department of Education’s posting of new data showing a need for more than 900 additional seats in preschool special education classes in the spring of 2022.
Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the New York City Council’s passage of Intro 150-A, creating a task force focused on the transportation of students in temporary housing.
Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) issued the following response to the release of the New York City Department of Education (DOE)’s special education data report for the 2020–21 school year.
2020-21 学年，纽约市有超过 101,000 名学生被认定为无家可归，比本世纪初增加了 42%，这也是连续第六个学年有超过 100,000 名纽约市学生无家可归。
根据纽约市教育局 (DOE) 发布的月度出勤数据，2021 年冬季和春季，居住在无家可归者收容所的学生在接受教育方面面临的困难明显大于有永久住房的同龄人。
Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the NYC Department of Education’s release of its plan for using its historic influx of funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act.
Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the announcement of the Fiscal Year 2022 city budget agreement.
纽约儿童倡导者对纽约市教育局根据 2020 年第 21 号地方法律首次发布学前特殊教育数据做出了以下回应。
本报告探讨了警方对 12,000 多项“儿童危机”干预措施的响应数据，在干预措施中，情绪困扰的学生被带离课堂并送往医院进行心理评估。这些干预措施中，黑人学生、就读 75 区学校的学生和就读位于低收入有色人种社区学校的学生占了很大比例。我们呼吁市政府通过取消学校警察并投资于行为和心理健康支持和服务来结束对情绪危机学生的定罪。
本报告重点介绍了阅读熟练程度的种族差异数据，并呼吁市政府将其$7亿美元联邦新冠疫情救济资金中的一部分投入其中，全面努力改进向所有学生提供阅读指导的方式，并为需要额外支持的学生提供有针对性的干预措施。