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WHOLE CITY

WHOLE CHILD

WHOLE SCHOOL

AN EDUCATION ROADMAP

FOR THE NEXT MAYOR NYC


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Ab A+ NYC

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

A+ NYC CAN mmb

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.

Technical assistance or A+NYC is provided by the Annenberg Institute or School Reorm at Brown University. Contact A+NYC Coordinator [email protected] or more inormation. Graphic Design by HOUSEOFCAKES.

www.aplusnyc.org Twitter: @APlusNY www.facebook.com/APlusNYC


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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

G8

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.

A4

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

CC

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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

averae of 25 studentsClAs

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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-

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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.

THEFIRST100DAYS


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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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F mTransorm the

New York City

public school

system into a

world-class

teaching

and learning

community

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THEwHOLESCHOOL

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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

1st


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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

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