Apr 26, Press Release. Civil rights, education, parent, and business groups outline three key investment areas to ensure more educational equity. It also invests in a host of other programs and services that many experts Utbildning och Skola will help reduce the childhood poverty rate and help families most in need.
Additionally, New York legislators passed a historic education budget that has provisions to support students experiencing homelessness, address unfinished instruction, and fully fund foundation aid for all students. Given the unprecedented year that students and families have experienced — instructional inconsistencies, traumas associated with racial injustice, and the impact of the pandemic — New York has an obligation to use new resources in a way that restores stability, addresses issues in the community, and sets school districts on a path to both equity and excellence.
We recommend that the new resources provided by the ARPA, and increases in state funding sources, be directed to the following areas:. Ny skollagstiftning spending on resources and support for students with the greatest needs.
Investment in a teacher and counselor workforce that is well-prepared, supported, and diverse. Support for high school seniors with postsecondary transition. By extending learning time and advanced coursework, ensuring students have access to tutoring and specialized services, increasing educator diversity and providing solutions to the digital divide, students from all backgrounds will be able to succeed.
We owe it to our students, our families, and our communities. White, executive director of Educators for Excellence-New York. Read More. Coalition calls on New York school districts to invest new state and federal funding into supporting students with the greatest needs Apr 26, Press Release.
We recommend that the new resources provided by the ARPA, and increases in state funding sources, be directed to the following areas: Targeted spending on resources and support for students with the greatest needs. Investing in additional academic supportssuch as evidence-based, targeted, intensive tutoring programs — extended and out-of-school learning opportunities — especially for students who were the most reliant on remote and hybrid learning models during the pandemic.
Improving equitable access to advanced coursework and ensuring that students, especially students of color and students from low-income backgrounds, have access to rigorous, high-quality coursework with appropriate support. Supporting students with specialized needsincluding students experiencing homelessness, students with disabilities, and Multilingual learners.
Addressing the digital divide and working to ensure that all students, especially those who choose hybrid or remote models in the fall, have access to working devices that can be used for learning. Expanding initiatives that promote educator diversity and retention by investing in the educator diversity pipelines and supporting the retention and promotion of current educators of color.
Investing in significantly increasing the number of school counselors, psychologists, and grief counselors proportionate to student population need, particularly for students who have experienced significant trauma during the course of the pandemic Support for high school seniors with postsecondary transition.