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Julian is a 3-year-old preschooler with delays in his language skills, but the DOE failed to provide recommended services.
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06.02.2022 | Manhattan Times News | Betty Baez Melo, Director of Early Childhood Education at Advocates for Children of New York, said she immigrated to the U.S. at age three and was fortunate to attend a Head Start program, where she learned English and began classroom learning. “...
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Blog: Budget Deal Maintains $4 Million to Boost Communication with Immigrant Families in NYC Schools06.14.2022 | City Limits | “This was a multi-faceted program,” explained Rita Rodriguez-Engberg, director of AFC’s Immigrant Students’ Rights Project, “in which the DOE created a working group, of which we were part.” The group worked on finding the most effective ways to communicate with...
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06.09.2022 | Politico Playbook PM | Of the more than 1 million students in New York City public schools, about 544,000 are from immigrant families and more than 329,000 do not have a parent who speaks English fluently, according to a new data analysis by the advocacy group Advocates for Children of...
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06.13.2022 | Chalkbeat NY | Juliet Eisenstein, a staff attorney with Advocates For Children’s Postsecondary Readiness Project, was hopeful that the board would continue to look at moving away from requiring students to pass exams in order to graduate as most other states have done. “This...
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05.02.2022 | Harlem World | “Every year, Advocates for Children of NY helps newly arrived, immigrant youth enroll in high school, but we continue to struggle with identifying schools that are willing to accept older, newcomer students ages 16-21 who require intensive English instruction, academic...
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06.10.2022 | Univision | La asociación Advocates for Children of New York, le pide al alcalde Eric Adams que, dentro del presupuesto municipal, sean otorgados 6 millones de dólares a programas que se encarguen de acercar a padres inmigrantes a la educación de sus hijos. De acuerdo con un estudio...
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Page: Special EventsSpecial Events2022 50th Anniversary Spring BenefitSee the full list of Event Committee membersPlease note: All guests are required to be vaccinated against COVID-19If you have any questions about special events, please contact Ivette Greenblatt at igreenblatt@advocatesforchildren.org or (212) 822-...
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Thank You To Our 2022 Sponsors! PLATINUM GOLD SILVER VALEDICTORIAN HONOR ROLL GRADUATE Lauren Goodstein...
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06.09.2022 | NY1 | More than 329,000 public school students do not have a parent who is fluent in English — and a new report highlights the problems many of them face getting information from their children’s schools. “It's figuring out ways to communicate, which doesn't just entail translated...
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Blog: Limited English proficient parents need support to access info about their children’s education06.09.2022 | amNY | “Our on-the-ground experience working with families has shown us that many parents never receive critical information when it is only available via translated documents posted online,” said Diana Aragundi, staff attorney at AFC. “For example, we have worked with immigrant...
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Page: Past EventsPast Events2022 Spring BenefitTop left: Hamza Bani-Hani, 2022 recipient of the Education Champion Award. Top right: Master of Ceremonies Steve Kornacki. Bottom (L-R): Eric F. Grossman, 2022 recipient of the Jill Chaifetz Award, Steve Kornacki, AFC Executive Director Kim Sweet...
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Resource: More than Translation: Multi-Faceted Solutions for Communicating with NYC’s Immigrant FamiliesAFC's June 2022 data analysis shows that more than 329,000 public school students do not have a parent who speaks English fluently, and calls on the City to establish a permanent, central system for immigrant family communications at the Department of Education.
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06.06.2022 | Today, Advocates for Children of New York (AFC) joined more than 200 organizations and individuals in calling on Mayor Adams to invest $5 million to continue the Mental Health Continuum, an innovative, evidence-based model for supporting students with significant mental health needs by...
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06.06.2022 | PIX 11 | Advocates are calling for Mayor Eric Admas to add $5 million dollars back into the city budget to support mental health services for students. The current program, Mental Health Continuum, prioritizes wellness for students with serious mental health needs and helps train...
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Blog: NYC advocates, parents push for alternatives to police, ambulances for kids in mental health crisis05.28.2022 | NY Daily News | “We have learned so much as this model is getting off the ground, and it would be just a real travesty to pull the rug out from under schools that are relying on it to meet the needs of their students,” said Dawn Yuster, the director of the school justice project at...