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AFC released a briefing paper entitled, More than a Statistic: Faces of the Local Diploma. The briefing paper profiles nine young adults who were able to earn their high school diploma only because the local diploma existed.
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Resource: Students with Interrupted Formal Education: A Challenge for the New York City Public SchoolsThere are more than 15,000 students in the New York City public schools who came to this country having missed two years or more of schooling. These students – known as Students with Interrupted Formal Education (SIFE) – present particular challenges for educators trying to raise the 40% on-time...
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In a survey conducted by Advocates for Children’s Junior Board, candidates in the 2009 New York City elections for mayor, public advocate, and comptroller provided answers to questions covering a variety of controversial issues that affect local public schools.
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Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city’s severe drop-out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more...
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The past seven years of education reform have not significantly improved outcomes, experiences or services for New York City’s160,000 public school students with disabilities, according to Include! Educate! Respect!, a report issued April, 2009 by the ARISE Coalition, a group of parents, educators...
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Over 60% of children in New York City public schools are immigrants or the children of immigrants, but a report by Advocates for Children shows that immigrant families face significant obstacles to participating in their children’s education.
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Resource: School Pushout: Where are we now?AFC surveyed 145 New York City youth to explore what factors cause students to leave school. The findings are being published today in an issue brief entitled, School Pushout: Where Are We Now. The brief provides insight into the educational experiences and aspirations of out-of-school youth in New...
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An estimated 138,000 of the 1.1 million New York City students are overage and under-credited (OA/UC) and are out of school or at-risk for dropping out of school. In response to this problem, the New York City Department of Education has begun creating new programming specifically for these...
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Approximately 13,000 students with disabilities exit the New York City public school system each year. The New York City Department of Education is responsible for preparing these individuals for independent living, vocational training, employment, higher education, and the other post-secondary...
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This report documented that two out of three parents are not receiving the most critical school document, their child's report card, in a language that they can understand. Similarly, over one third (37%) of the parents surveyed did not receive translated notices to attend parent-teacher...
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This report reveals serious lapses in the provision of language assistance services to immigrant parents found during our month long monitoring of high school registration centers and a recent survey of select parent coordinators.
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This report utilizes enrollment data from the New York City Department of Education to examine the representation of ELLs and immigrant students in both small and large schools, as well as the extent to which small high schools have not been created in areas with large and growing immigrant student...
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This report found that the New York City Department of Education (DOE) must increase its efforts to ensure the protection of homeless students’ legal rights to education.
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This briefing provides an analysis of NYC Department of Education (DOE) statistics regarding student eligibility and enrollment in Supplemental Education Services (SES) and outlines the results of a survey of all 2004-2005 DOE approved SES Providers.
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This report examines the results of a survey to determine whether many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students in New York City experience a safe and supportive learning environment. The report also examines the current state of the law meant to protect students from harassment and...
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This report examines the graduation outcomes of the more than 170,000 children currently classified as having disabilities and in need of special education services in New York City, based on Federal, New York State and New York City data from the school years between 1996-1997 and 2003-2004
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AFC has created a model program called Project Achieve to ensure that children in or at risk of placement in foster care receive access to appropriate educational services. There are over 20,000 children in foster care in New York City, and those of school age are among the most at-risk students in...
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This study describes the efforts undertaken by AFC to address the push-out problem in NYC
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This report presents research that demonstrates why retention policies are damaging to students, and presents methods for advocating against retention.
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This report examines the harmful effects of retention, including the blanket strategy of using a single test to determine if a student should be held back. This report found that retention impedes the educational progress of children, and leads to primarily lower achievement and higher drop out...