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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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10.26.2012 | AFC has a new guide to Section 504! This guide explains what Section 504 is, how it applies to children in public schools, and how to get Section 504 services or accommodations for your child. View the guide
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10.25.2012 | Today AFC testified before the Education Committee of the New York City Council, expressing concerns about the NYC Department of Education's network-based structure for supporting the City's 1,700 schools. Our concerns center on two different problems: (i) the structure diffuses...
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AFC testified before the Education Committee of the New York City Council, expressing concerns about the DOE's network-based structure for supporting the City's schools.
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10.22.2012 | In honor of National Pro Bono Week (October 21-27, 2012), AFC would like to thank our Pro Bono Partners. Our Pro Bono Partners Program significantly increases our capacity to provide as many families as possible with intensive assistance and legal representation so that their children...
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10.22.2012 | New York Daily News | Advocates for special education said that two years of test scores wouldn’t show anything definitively but that the Department of Education has failed to provide data on whether the program works or not. “DOE has been very stingy with the data,” said Advocates for...
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10.18.2012 | Tell the New York State Department of Health that you oppose regulations that would prohibit the same agency from evaluating and providing services to a child and family in the Early Intervention Program. The proposed regulations would make it challenging to serve English...
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AFC submitted public comments opposing regulations proposed by the New York State Department of Health that would prohibit the same agency from evaluating and providing services to a child and family in the Early Intervention Program. The proposed regulations would make it challenging to serve...
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10.12.2012 | WABC-TV News | AFC client Ashton McKenzie was featured on WABC News. Ashton, who immigrated to New York from Jamaica in 2002, is banned from playing football at Dewitt Clinton High School because he aged-out of eligibility due to being unfairly held back in third grade.
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10.10.2012 | Today AFC testified before the New York City Council Education Committee, expressing concerns regarding transportation for students with disabilities this school year. Transportation services remain a significant source of frustration for parents of students with disabilities. We have...
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AFC testified before the NYC Council Education Committee, expressing concerns regarding transportation of students with disabilities.
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AFC testified before the New York City Council Committee on Mental Health, expressing concerns about implementation of the NYC Early Intervention Program’s embedded coaching initiative.
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10.02.2012 | Gotham Schools | Volunteer Melodie Ampuero, a project associate at Advocates for Children...praised the program and thought it could be expanded. She said she worried that the one-time service wasn’t enough. Volunteers were not instructed to follow up with the students they met to make...
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This report, jointly issued by AFC and The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF), sets forth key principles for a sound ELL accountability framework in New York State.
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9.27.2012 | Gotham Schools | The hearing offered a rare view into ELL issues. Elsa Cruz Pearson, a staff attorney for Advocates for Children of New York, said the main way advocates get data is through an annual report that the Office of English Language Learners submits to the state. But the city...
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9.25.2012 | Insideschools.org | The reform has had the opposite effect in some schools, according to Maggie Moroff, special education coordinator at Advocates for Children, with neighborhood schools creating self-contained special education classes for just a few students. "Those classes aren't...
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Resource: Testimony Delivered to the NYC Council Regarding the DOE's Corrective Action Plan for ELLsTestimony delivered to the New York City Council's Committee on Education and Committee on Immigration regarding oversight of immigrant students in the NYC public schools and the DOE’s Corrective Action Plan for ELL students.
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9.24.2012 | DNAinfo.com | "We're hearing from too many families that their children's preschool services were not in place at the beginning of the school year," said Randi Levine, a lawyer with Advocates for Children, which supports disadvantaged children in New York City... Read article
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Resource: Guide to the Educational Rights of Students in Temporary Housing: Charter SchoolsThis guide describes the rights of students in temporary housing who attend charter schools.
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9.12.2012 | New York Law Journal | Jamie Levitt, the President of AFC's Board of Directors, is featured in the New York Law Journal special supplement, "Lawyers Who Lead By Example." In her role on the Board, Levitt has helped to recruit Morrison & Foerster attorneys to represent parents at...
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9.13.2012 | City Limits | This school year the city has undertaken a dramatic transformation of special education to try to improve student achievement. While applauding the push, these writers believe the city has to put more resources into the classrooms where special ed kids are now learning....