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WHOLE CITY
WHOLE CHILD
WHOLE SCHOOL
AN EDUCATION ROADMAP
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A+ NYC is a coalition o 50 o the citys strongest nonprot advocacy, youth-service
and community based organizations that have come together to build a new vision or
New York City public schools under the next administration. The coalitions activities
have included providing research-based summaries o educational issues in an online
clearinghouse called the Policy Hub and raising the voices o students and parents in theprocess o improving their schools throughPS 2013: Shaping an Education Agenda for
the Next Mayor. For more inormation, please visit: www.aplusnyc.org.
A Young Mothers D.R.E.A.Myoungmothersdream.org
Advocates for Childrenadvocatesorchildren.org
Alliance for Quality Educationaqeny.org
Bronx Health REACHbronxhealthreach.org
Brooklyn Food Coalitionbrooklynoodcoalition.org
Brooklyn Movement Centerbrooklynmovementcenter.org
Brooklyn UFT ParentOutreach Committeeut.org/parents
Brooklyn Young Mothers Collectivebymcinc.org
Brotherhood Sister Solbrotherhood-sistersol.org
Center for Alternative Sentencing andEmployment Servicescases.org
Center for Arts Educationcaenyc.org
Change the Stakeschangethestakes.wordpress.com
Citizen Action of New Yorkcitizenactionny.org
Class Size Mattersclasssizematters.org
Coalition for Asian American Children
& Familiescac.org
Coalition for Educational Justicenyccej.org
Community Food Advocatescommunityoodadvocates.org
Community Service Societycssny.org
Comprehensive Development Inccdi-ny.org
Cypress Hills LocalDevelopment Corporation
cypresshills.orgDignity in Schools- NYdignityinschools.org/dsc-ny
El Puenteelpuente.us
Eskoltaeskolta.com
Girls for Gender Equityggenyc.org
Highbridge Community Life Centerhighbridgelie.org
Internationals Network forPublic Schools, Inc.internationalsnps.org
La Fuentelauenteinc.org
League of Young Voterstheleague.com/theleague.com
Make the Road New Yorkmaketheroadny.org
Mirabal Sisters Cultural &Community Centermirabalcenter.org
Mothers on the Movemothersonthemove.org
NAACP Legal Defense &Educational Fund, Inc.naacpld.org
National Economic andSocial Rights Initiativenesri.org
Neighborhood Family Services Coalitionnsc-nyc.org
New Settlement Parent Action Committeesettlementhousingund.org/new_settlement.html
New York Civil Liberties Unionnyclu.org
New York Communities for Changenycommunities.org
New York Immigration Coalitionthenyic.org
New York Urban Leaguenyul.org
Northwest Bronx Community and ClergyCoalitionnorthwestbronx.org
Parent Voices New Yorkparentvoicesny.org
Phys Ed Plusphysedplus.org
Public Policy and Education Fund ofNew Yorkppeny.org
Redemption, Incrdyouth.blogspot.com
Resilience Advocacy Projectresiliencelaw.org
Sistas and Brothas Unitedsistasandbrothasunited.org
Staten Island Federation of PTAssipta.org
The Black Institutetheblackinstitute.org
Turning Pointturningpointbrooklyn.org/
Urban Youth Collaborativeurbanyouthcollaborative.org
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Funders of A+NYC include the Donors ducation Collaorative, the North tar Fund, the Ne Yor Foundation,
the chott Foundation for Pulic ducation and Counities for Pulic ducation efor.
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94%o schools are
underunded based
on student needs.1
Time Spent Taking State Tests or
New York City Students
Grade Hours
3-4 7h
5 9h
IEP 18h
Compared to
SAT 3h45m
MCAT 4h30mTESTIN
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HEALTH10
1 in 5kindergartners
is obese
and
nearly half of our
elementary school children
are not at a healthy weight
PYCA DCAN9
An audit o elementaryschools ound that 96%
o schools ailed to comply
with the state mandate o
120 minutes o PE
per week.
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In NYC,
approximately
50%o all public
elementary
schools are ailing
to provide the
arts instruction
that students are
entitled to by New
York State law.
28%
IEP
ASIAN
79%
WHITE
75%
BLACK
55%
ALLSTUDENTS
60%
LATINO
53%
ELL
35%
GRADUATION5
NYC public schoolgraduation rates by
population inJune 2012
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There are more than
5,100police personnelin the public schools,
a number that is
approximately
70 percent larer
than the citys
guidance counselor
work force.
SCHOOLBUILDINGS6
NYC reports that less than two percent o
school buildings are in good condition.
NYC schools have the
largest class sizes in the
state. In kindergarten
through third grade,
they are the largest in14 years with an
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1. http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/fsf2013.pdf; 2. http://www.campaignforchildrennyc.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Instability-Report_Final-Designed1.pdf; 3. http://schools.nyc.gov/AboutUs/data/classsize/classsize.htm;4. http://aplusnyc.org/arts-education/; 5. http://schools.nyc.gov/Accountability/data/GraduationDropoutReports/default.htm; 6. http://www.seiu32bj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/falling-further-apart1.pdf; 7. http://aplusnyc.org/police-in-schools/; 8. Testing hours for grades 3-4, 5 and IEP are spread over 6 days. http://www.princetonreview.com, http://www.parentvoicesny.org/?page_id=1132; 9. http://www.comptroller.nyc.gov/bureaus/audit/PDF_FILES_2011/MD11_083A.pdf, http://wccny.org/2011/10/04/wcc-applauds-comptrollers-audit-of-physical-education-in-schools/; 10. https://media.gractions.com/F410DC9E068B98B88EA0B5C54D6885F750D9D0A3/2850366f-07e8-4da8-a7ba-ff6d1b687975.pdf.
CCNmC A2
1 in 3NYC children livein poverty.
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Reach out to school
stakeholders by calling
community listeningsessions during which
you solicit suggestions
rom students, parents,
educators and other
stakeholders or
improving instruction,
culture and saety
during the rst term.
Incorporate the PS 2013 Whole Child,
Whole School, Whole City ramework into
your vision and messaging, to begin to build
a public mandate or community-driven
school improvements.
Use your campaign to engage
parents, students, teachers and
community in developing your
priority education policies and
message.
Include parents, teachers, community and student
representatives on your education transition team.
Attend several Community
Education Councils (CECs)
and Panel or Educational
Policy (PEP) meetings, to
understand the scope and
powers o these entities.
THEWHOLE
CHILD
THE
WHOLE
SCHOOL
THEWHOLE
CITY
Visit and learn rom successul schools across the city.
Listen to leaders, educators, students and parents
about what makes their schools great.
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F100 DAYCreate the
conditions or
teaching and
learning in schoolsand address
priority needs
o students
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More arts and physical education.
Provide schools with unding and support to ensure
adequate space, instructional time and resources to
meet or exceed the minimum requirements under
state law, which include teaching dance, music,
theatre and visual arts, providing 120 minutes o
physical education per week and other mandates.
Families as partners. Encourage schoolsto engage amilies in identiying their priorities
and provide amily-riendly trainings on those
priorities, in their home language or with quality
translation. Increase proessional development
or Parent Coordinators, Community Education
Councils, School Leadership Teams (SLTs), and other
parent bodies.
Visionary leadership.Appoint a Chancellor who makes decisions based
on collaboration, equity, excellence and
democratic participation and on evidence-
based research about school improvement.
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Redesign theaccountability
system.Reduce the role
o standardized
tests in high-stakes
decisions such as
school admissions,
grade promotion and
school closures, and
elevate other measures
o student and school
perormance.
Redesign the progress
reports to deemphasize
the role o test scores,
give the public easy-to-
read inormation about
schools, and evaluate
schools on indicators
such as school climate,
social and emotional
learning, arts, physical
education, saety,
wellness, etc.
Create an early
intervention system
or struggling
schools to identiy
over-concentration o
high-needs students,
inappropriate use o
suspensions, high staf
turnover, low attendance,
and other indicators
to trigger supportive
interventions.
Help schools improve
by supporting SLTs
in engaging the whole
community to identiy the
schools goals, strengths
and areas or improve-
ment and unding these
improvement plans.
Share success stories
with other schools in or-
der to learn best practices.
Convene a Task Force o educators, administrators, testing experts and others
charged with replacing the accountability system with one that will:
TASKFORCE
Solutions not
suspensions.Build on the work o the New York
City School Justice Partnership Task
Force by establishing shared goals
among stakeholders; investing in hiring
counselors, social workers and other
support staf to meet students social
and emotional needs; and reducing
the use o suspensions, school-based
summonses and arrests.
Invest in community schools.Transorm more public schools into community
schools by helping schools identiy their needs,
conducting scans o local services (mental and
physical health, tutoring, arts, amily services,
recreation, etc.) and engaging organizations to
bring needed supports and services into the schools.
Fight orunding.Establish ongoing state and ederal advocacy
campaigns, including mayoral visits to
Albany and D.C., or ull unding o the
Campaign or Fiscal Equityand increased
resources or schools.
Evaluate Special Education.Ask the Chancellor or a public,
comprehensive report on the impact o the
DOEs special education reorms on students
with disabilities and hold orums in all 5
boroughs or parent and student input.
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Reduce the role o
NYPD in schools.Shit authority over disciplinary decisions made
by School Saety Agents (SSAs) rom the NYPD to
principals and provide training in youth development
or all school staf including SSAs to create a
welcoming environment where students eel sae.
Invest in 21st century
career educators.Guided by research in the eld,
prioritize rst-rate teacher and
principal training, recruitment and
proessional development that will
develop and sustain 21st century
career educators.See Appendix B.
Find savings.
Analyze the budget othe DOE and other city
agencies that serve
children and amilies
to nd cost savings and
identiy strategies to use
unds more efectively.
All in or children. Bring all departmentheads rom city agencies together to identiy how theycan collaborate with each other and with schools to
improve student success.
THEFIRST100DAYS
College and career now.Increase college and career counseling staf and expand
community-based programs so that students set and
obtain ambitious college and career goals; access services
like SAT prep; and get help with FAFSA. and college
and career counseling. Train and support school staf in
planning or the transition o students with disabilities
rom high school to post-secondary lie. Engage amilies o
immigrant students in understanding college options.
Of all the teachers who
began their career in city
schools in school year
2008-2009
were no longer teaching
at the same school after
three years.
50%
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New York City
public school
system into a
world-class
teaching
and learning
community
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Reduce class size.
Especially in early grades and
in high-needs schools.
Strong start
or kids.
Build on successul
national models and
standards to expand
early childhood settings
throughout the city
and conduct outreach
to ensure access or all
Pre-K and Kindergarten-
aged children.
Put the public back in
public education.Work with stakeholders to expand
scope and powers o all parent bodies
and the Panel on Educational Policy
(PEP) in educational decisions.
Allow PEP members to serve out
xed terms, so they can vote reely
without ear o removal.
KIDS
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THEFIRSTTERM
Support students with
special needs.Increase access to the general education
curriculum or students with disabilities
by adopting accessible curricula; ensuring
access to high-quality programs and
schools; providingtiered, research-
based interventions; and making time or
collaboration between teachers and other
school staf.
Green schools,
better world.Dedicate Capital Budget
resources to a Green
Schools Initiative to help
NYC schools eliminate
toxins, use sustainable
resources, create healthy
green spaces and engage
the community about
environmental preservation.
Support English
Language Learners.
Ensure that all English
Language Learners have
access to programs and
proessionals that link
academic knowledge with
the growth o language
skills. Work with other
city resources to expand
the availability o ESL
classes or amilies.
Scrap the blue book
and build more schools.
Redene acility usage to account or student,
educator and community needs and to accurately
represent available space across the school system.
Increase investment in acilities, especially in
neighborhoods with a high concentration o
overcrowded schools, to provide sae, sustainable,
welcoming spaces that could accommodate a
community school model.
Learn rom
experience.Engage stakeholders requently
in evaluating the strengths and
weaknesses o all reorms and
adjust course based on proven
research to improve efectiveness.
Learn rom the experiences o
other urban districts that have
adopted a whole child, whole
school, whole city approach.
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Get up-to-speed with technology.Convene the technology sector, educators, students and
parents to nd ways to integrate technology into the schools
curricula and proessional development and to increase access
to general education classrooms or students with disabilities.
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THEFIRSTTERM
Increase quality ood access.
Provide ree healthy lunch to all students regardless o
income and promote participation in the breakast program.
Provide support, resources, training and menu exibility
options so that schools can cook and distribute healthier,
culturally sensitive meals that meet USDA standards.
Transorm schools
into teaching
and learning
communities.
Partner with the citys non-prot and private sector educational, arts,
cultural, civic, business and technologyorganizations, public and
private colleges and universities, and the school community to extend
opportunities or students to interact with their surrounding community
and the entire city.
More time or quality learning. Support principals, educators and the
school community in redesigning the school day to provide: a well-rounded
culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate curriculum or all
students (See Appendix B); more time to engage with parents; more time or
teacher collaboration, planning and refection.
Create pathways or strong
principals. Provide quality
training or Assistant Principals
that includes, mentoring, ongoing
orums and site visits to share with
and learn rom each other.
Support teacher improvement.
Embed proessional development in
every school, tailored to the needs
o that school, including creating
pathways or schools to hire highly
skilled lead teachers to coordinate
supports or the schools educators.
Mayor-City-School-Partnerships.
Promote bilingualism.
Award the Seal o Biliteracy
to students who master two
or more languages.
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Transorm schools into teaching and
learning communities where students,
teachers, principals and parents are
supported, respected, valued and challenged
Reduce the number o hours that students
spend taking tests and use multiple measuresto assess student and school success
Create a school system with mutual
accountability or continuous learning
and development
Restore democratic voice and mutual
accountability to the school system
Channel the citys educational, social, cultural,
artistic and entrepreneurial resources and
institutions in support o schools
Align and integrate the delivery o services to
amilies across the citys public and private agencies
Deliver more and equitable
unding to city schools