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Julian’s Story
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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12.08.2019 | NY Post | Under federal law, every child who needs it is entitled to free speech therapy and similar services — but first parents have to get the system to acknowledge the need.Analysis by Advocates for Children and the Citizens’ Committee for Children found that the more black and...
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01.07.2020 | Chalkbeat NY | Maggie Moroff, a disability policy expert at Advocates for Children, said there could be real benefits to the district running a school that explicitly services students with reading challenges — including making phonics-based reading instruction more widely...
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10.28.2019 | CBS New York | According to a new report by Advocates for Children of New York, more than 114,000 students in the city were homeless last school year, a number that has increased more than 70% in the last decade. The report was generated from information submitted to the state...
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Blog: New Data Show Number of NYC Students who are Homeless Topped 100,000 for Fourth Consecutive Year10.28.2019 | Today, the New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS), a project of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), posted new data showing that the number of students in New York City identified as homeless during the 2018-2019 school year...
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10.28.2019 | NY1 | More than 114,000 students were homeless in New York City in the last academic year. Put another way, that's one in every ten children in the city's public schools, according to a report from Advocates for Children."Over the past decade, the number of New York City students who...
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10.28.2019 | NY Post | Citing data from the state Education Department, Advocates for Children of New York found that 114,085 public and charter students — or 1 in 10 — identified as homeless. Of those, 34,000 resided in city shelters and 73,750 were living in temporary housing with relatives,...
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10.28.2019 | Chalkbeat NY | One in 10 New York City students lacked stable housing last school year, according to new data released Monday. There were 114,085 homeless students at district and charter schools—numbers that speak to the scope of the crisis, even as they were down slightly over the...
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10.29.2019 | Brooklyn Daily Eagle | Nearly one in 10 Brooklyn students were homeless during the course of the 2018-2019 school year, according to new data released Monday. But in one school district, that number was closer to one in five.Officials at Advocates for Children of New York — the group...
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10.28.2019 | Queens Daily Eagle | Nearly 20,300 Queens school children experienced homelessness last year, according to an examination of Department of Education enrollment data by the organization Advocates for Children of New York. Overall, more than 114,000 New York City students experienced...
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Blog: 29,000 NYC Students with Disabilities Failed to Receive Required Special Education Instruction11.01.2019 | Today, 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 City Department of Education’s special education data report for the 2018-19 school year: New York City...
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11.01.2019 | Today, 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 City Department of Education’s transportation data report for the 2018-19 school year:Last year, we joined many others in calling...
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11.04.2019 | On November 1, 2019, the City released 2018-2019 school year data showing that, since the 2013-2014 school year, suspensions are at an all-time low, having declined by 38.5%. The City reported that major crime in schools declined by 31.9% during the same period. The school...
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11.01.2019 | Bronx Times | More than 114,000 youngsters were identified as homeless during the 2018-19 school year, according to state Education Department statistics studied by Advocates for Children in New York City.To show that there has been no concerted effort to address the issue there is...
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10.31.2019 | BKLYNER | From providing on-the-ground help in schools to advocating for improved policies, nonprofits are making our school system work for all students. Below are eight ways to give and some great organizations that can put your generosity to work.All children have the right to...
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10.29.2019 | SI Live | The New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students, a project of Advocates for Children of New York (AFC), released the new data of students who experienced homelessness in New York State and New York City during the 2018-2019 school year. Read...
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10.29.2019 | NY Metro Parents | As Davis explains, it is especially important for families making lower incomes and families whose native language is not English to understand their parental rights. Many of these families, however, don’t have the means to pay retainers and fees, according to Ashley...
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10.31.2019 | Queens Chronicle | ommon sense and studies agree: If there’s one thing students need in order to succeed, it’s a stable home life. But for 114,085 New York City public schoolchildren — about 10 percent of the total — such an environment is impossible to achieve. That’s because they’re...
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11.01.2019 | Chalkbeat NY | Kim Sweet, director for the nonprofit Advocates for Children, credited the DOE for providing a higher number of students with their mandated services.“We are nevertheless dismayed that more than 15% of students with disabilities — a total [of] 28,960 children, more than...
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10.30.2019 | Coalition for the Homeless | One of every 10 New York City public school students was homeless during the 2018-2019 school year. New data released by Advocates for Children of New York show that 114,085 NYC students lived in shelters or doubled-up with family or friends, a number...
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10.30.2019 | Bronx Justice News | The number of city students identified as homeless has increased by more than 70 percent over the last decade, despite a half percentage point decrease from the 2017-2018 school year, according to the report.At least 36,679 public students in the Bronx were...