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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AFC 在市议会财政委员会就行政预算作证时概述了我们应对州和联邦政府历史性教育资金流入的优先事项。市政府必须有效利用这些资金提供所需的学术和社会情感支持，包括向尚未重新入学的学生和家庭提供外展服务，并为需要的学生提供专门支持。
AFC 向市议会教育委员会、公共福利委员会和刑事司法委员会提交了书面证词，以支持第 1224 号提案，并提出了建议，以确保在法院指定的环境中为儿童和青少年提供的教育的公平性、透明度、监督和问责制。
在市议会教育和公共福利委员会面前，AFC 强调了在市政府决定如何使用历史性教育资金流入时制定有针对性的计划来支持收容所学生的重要性。
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 testified before the New York City Council Committee on Public Safety at a hearing on the Mayor’s New York City Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative Draft Plan.
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.
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.