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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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This report highlights the urgent need to address the impending crisis of minority groups not graduating from high school at troubling rates.
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This report addresses the lack of meaningful access afforded to parents with limited English proficiency to their children’s schools and the school system due to language differences. Evidence suggests that parental involvement in a child’s education is a key factor to his/her success in school.
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This report examines the results of surveys that were conducted to assess the implementation and effectiveness of Supplemental Education Services (SES). These tutoring and remediation services were provided for the first time in 2002-2003 to over 240,000 eligible children in schools “in need of...
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This report examines data documenting students in New York City who have been designated as “discharged” from the school system, an indicator that has received little public attention. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many of these discharges may have been forced “push-outs” by school...
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This report examines a group of programs in NYC public schools that prove that integration of special needs children into regular classrooms is not only possible but also desirable for children with many different types of disabilities and with differing needs
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This report analyzes the educational outcomes of English Language Learners (ELLs) since the implementation of new graduation standards in New York State and assesses the implementation of promised improvements in the education provided to ELLs.
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This report looks at the history of special education services in the New York City school system and at the differing views regarding how children with disabilities should be treated, i.e., via segregation or inclusion.
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Resource: Report from the Front Lines: What's Needed to Make New York's ESL and Bilingual Programs SucceedThis report focuses on one of the ingredients most fundamental for English Language Learners (ELLs): their teachers, and the resources they possess to teach ELLs. It also addresses the impact of new graduation and promotion standards for ELLs, the challenges teachers face, and steps the NYC public...
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Resource: Playing by The Rules When The System Doesn't: Immigrant Families and Summer School in New YorkThis report discusses findings from surveys conducted during the summer of 2000 to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the Year 2000 Summer program, an integral part of the NYC Board of Education’s updated promotion policy.
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This report shows the results of surveys of inspaniduals involved in the delivery of educational services to foster care children as well as to the foster care children and parents themselves. The main institutions in foster children’s lives fail to put into place the fundamental building blocks...
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his report examines changes initiated by the Board of Education to end the policy of “social promotion.”
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This report examines the results of a survey of school conditions carried out by the NYC Healthy Schools Working Group provides a snapshot of the environmental conditions in NYC public schools. It examines the results of years of neglect of infrastructure for children and reveals disturbing new...
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This report provides an overview of the educational needs of children in foster care, as being placed into foster care is particularly disruptive for children with educational disabilities or other special needs.
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This report endorses the inclusion of students with disabilities in general education classrooms.
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This paper endorses the placement of children with behavioral and emotionally handicapping conditions in the least restrictive environment.
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Inclusion: The Considerations and Rights of Placing Special Education Students in Regular Education Classrooms This report discusses the considerations and rights of inclusion, the process of obtaining inclusion for a disabled child, the appeal process, and the issues arising from inclusion for...
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Resource: Gifted Education in New York City: An Analysis of Segregation in New York City's Gifted ProgramsThis report examines New York City’s gifted programs and addresses the underrepresentation of African American and Latino students in gifted programs and possible solutions.
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This report addresses the effects of homelessness on education.
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This report offers innovative strategies for educating New York City’s homeless students