Publications
Too Many Children Left Behind: Make Early Learning A Top Priority
(Released February 11, 2016) The state’s pre-K programs have high quality standards and expectations, but many districts and programs still lack the resources and infrastructure to meet those benchmarks. It is critical that the state step up and make the appropriate...
Breaking the School-to-Prison Pipeline: The Crisis Affecting Rochester’s Students and What We Can Do to Fix It
(Released February 1, 2016) In Rochester City School District, like many other places around the country, young people are routinely subjected to extreme discipline and kicked out of school for behavior that used to get students sent to the principal’s office or...
Students v. The State of New York: What happens to a dream deferred?
(Released January 10, 2016) This report shows how much funding is owed to New York schools for each state Senate and Assembly member. The report is accompanied by an online web application which allows parents to search for the amount owed to each individual school...
Addressing Health Disparities Through the Marketplace: An Action Agenda for New York State of Health
(Released June 25th, 2014) Building on New York State’s success in enrolling nearly a million New Yorkers in health insurance, a new report makes recommendations on how to continue improving health care by aggressively addressing health disparities in the coming...
New Report: Early Childhood Education: Frozen Funding Leads to Cracks in the Foundation
(Released February 7th, 2012) Public Policy and Education Fund (PPEF). Early childhood education is the cornerstone of our educational system. With benefits that include higher academic achievement, higher earnings as adults, a more productive civic life, high...
New Report: the Affordable Care Act and New Yorkers: the Gift That Keeps On Giving
(Released January 5th, 2012) Public Policy and Education Fund of New York (PPEF). Health care reform will likely rear its head as, if not the most, one of the most controversial issues of the 2012 political year in New York. But any conversation about the Affordable...
Back to Inequality: How Students in Poor School Districts are Paying the Price for the State Budget
The 2011 state budget cut $1.3 billion from school classrooms across New York. In enacting these cuts, students in poor districts lost the most. The cuts in poor districts were three times as large as those in wealthy districts (see Methodology section for a...
QUALITYstarsNY – Fact Sheet for Professionals
QUALITYstarsNY is a comprehensive initiative to ensure that our young children - the 1.5 million New Yorkers under age six - have the opportunity for high quality early learning experiences. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are designed to evaluate...
QUALITYstarsNY – Fact Sheet for Stakeholders
QUALITYstarsNY is a comprehensive initiative to ensure that our young children - the 1.5 million New Yorkers under age six - have the opportunity for high quality early learning experiences. Quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS) are designed to evaluate...