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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Today, AFC and the ARISE Coalition (coordinated by AFC) are testifying at the New York City Council Committee on Education’s Preliminary Budget hearing.
Excellent public schools are essential to making New York City an attractive place to live and raise a family and to ensuring a strong foundation for our City’s future. Regardless of what happens at the federal level in the years ahead, it will be essential for New York City Public Schools to remain focused on the critical task of ensuring all young people receive the support they need to learn and thrive. Based on our experience helping thousands of New York City families each year, we urge the next Mayoral Administration to take on big challenges with bold ideas and stand firm in the face of threats to students’ civil rights.
The Fiscal Year 2026 budget must sustain important education programs funded with one-year city dollars set to expire in June 2025 and make additional investments to address pressing needs.
For far too long, New York City Public Schools has failed to meet the critical charge of ensuring all students learn to read. While the City has begun to take steps to address this challenge, meaningful change takes time, and literacy must remain a top education priority for the next Mayoral administration. To sustain and build upon the work done thus far, New York City should develop a robust system of intensive interventions and support for students across all grade levels; provide teachers with ongoing coaching and professional learning in the science of reading; and partner with families to support literacy learning.
Today, AFC is testifying at a hearing of the New York State Education Department Dyslexia and Dysgraphia Task Force. Our testimony focuses on screening and intervention, emphasizing that moving the needle on literacy requires a comprehensive approach and a substantial and sustained commitment of resources.
Kim Sweet, Executive Director of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), issued the following statement in response to the release of the New York State English Language Arts test scores for New York City students
这份报告基于与纽约市学生家长的对话，了解他们在孩子学习阅读时与学校合作的经历，为纽约市公立学校 (NYCPS) 如何与家庭合作提供建议该市进入下一阶段的努力，以改善整个学校系统的阅读教学。
AFC 就纽约市公立学校新的语音课程和阅读障碍筛查问题在纽约市议会教育委员会和州及联邦立法委员会作证。我们敦促委员会坚定不移地致力于确保所有学校都采用经过验证有效的阅读课程，并推动学校系统为所有学生（包括患有阅读障碍等残疾的学生）提供所需的干预和支持。
纽约儿童权益倡导者执行董事金·斯威特 (Kim Sweet) 针对校长宣布的纽约市公立学校读写教学改革发表了以下声明。
纽约儿童倡导者 (AFC) 执行董事 Kim Sweet 针对纽约市 2022 年纽约州英语语言艺术 (ELA) 测试成绩的发布发表了以下声明，该成绩显示，只有 36% 的黑人和西班牙裔学生、18% 的残疾学生和 13% 的 3-8 年级英语语言学习者 (ELL) 具有熟练的阅读能力。