2025 State Policy Priorities
January 1, 2025
Find out what our key legislative priorities are in child care, child poverty, developmental services, education, and health for children throughout New York.
New York State Reports
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Child Care for All Families
August 29, 2024
This report examines how New York’s system of granting child care assistance program funds to 58 separate social service districts is inefficient and exacerbates funding inequities between different regions of the state. It also makes recommendations for how New York State can reform the system to better serve families throughout the state.
Data Disaggregation Fact Sheet – Early Intervention System
May 14, 2024
Disaggregated data are critical to ensuring all of New York’s children and families have equitable access to the services they need to thrive. By understanding who is and who is not being served by the state’s early childhood systems, we can better identify and address systemic inequities.
Some disaggregated data are available on children receiving Early Intervention services in the state, both through public reports and Freedom of Information Law requests, but county-level and intersectional (e.g., race and gender) data remain unavailable. This information is critical to ensure the State is providing equitable access to timely Early Intervention services, especially for children of color, low-income children, and those in rural or large urban areas.
This fact sheet is part of a collection that explores the state of data disaggregation in four of New York’s key early childhood systems: Early Intervention, Child Care, Pre-Kindergarten & Preschool Special Education, and Behavioral Health. Please click here to view the full set, including recommendations for state and local leaders, as well as advocates, on ways to improve the collection and public reporting of disaggregated data across systems.
Data Disaggregation Fact Sheets – All
May 14, 2024
Disaggregated data are critical to ensuring all of New York’s children and families have equitable access to the services they need to thrive. By understanding who is and who is not being served by the state’s early childhood systems, we can better identify and address systemic inequities.
This collection of fact sheets explores the state of data disaggregation in four of New York’s key early childhood systems: Early Intervention, Child Care, Pre-Kindergarten & Preschool Special Education, and Behavioral Health. We also provide recommendations for state and local leaders, as well as advocates, on ways to improve the collection and public reporting of disaggregated data across systems.
The project was a collaboration between three of New York’s leading children’s advocacy organizations: The Children’s Agenda, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, and the Schuyler Center for Analysis & Advocacy. Funding was provided by The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights Education Fund.
Data Disaggregation Fact Sheet – Pre-K and Preschool Special Education
May 14, 2024
Disaggregated data are critical to ensuring all of New York’s children and families have equitable access to the services they need to thrive. By understanding who is and who is not being served by the state’s early childhood systems, we can better identify and address systemic inequities.
Enrollment data are published yearly for Pre-Kindergarten students around the state by gender, race/ethnicity, economically disadvantaged status, English Language Learner status, and disability status. While the count of Pre-K students with disabilities is available statewide, there is no additional disaggregation or information available on how those children are being served. This information is critical to ensuring students are receiving the supports they are entitled to by law.
This fact sheet is part of a collection that explores the state of data disaggregation in four of New York’s key early childhood systems: Early Intervention, Child Care, Pre-Kindergarten & Preschool Special Education, and Behavioral Health. Please click here to view the full set, including recommendations for state and local leaders, as well as advocates, on ways to improve the collection and public reporting of disaggregated data across systems.
Data Disaggregation Fact Sheet – Child Care
May 14, 2024
Disaggregated data are critical to ensuring all of New York’s children and families have equitable access to the services they need to thrive. By understanding who is and who is not being served by the state’s early childhood systems, we can better identify and address systemic inequities.
There is little publicly available data regarding New York’s child care system, and no disaggregated data at all on the child care workforce or the children and families statewide who benefit from their services. While some state-level data exist on families receiving subsidized care, this is not enough to tell the story of how workers and families are experiencing the system and if their needs are truly being met.
This fact sheet is part of a collection that explores the state of data disaggregation in four of New York’s key early childhood systems: Early Intervention, Child Care, Pre-Kindergarten & Preschool Special Education, and Behavioral Health. Please click here to view the full set, including recommendations for state and local leaders, as well as advocates, on ways to improve the collection and public reporting of disaggregated data across systems.
Data Disaggregation Fact Sheet – Behavioral Health
May 14, 2024
Disaggregated data are critical to ensuring all of New York’s children and families have equitable access to the services they need to thrive. By understanding who is and who is not being served by the state’s early childhood systems, we can better identify and address systemic inequities.
New York’s children’s behavioral health system is complex, with minimal disaggregation of access and utilization data. While a lot of data are available at a regional- or county-level, few indicators are disaggregated further by important demographic categories like race, gender, or age group. These data limitations inhibit the State and community-based providers from identifying and meeting the unmet needs of children in the state, and prevent parents, advocates, and community stakeholders from being fully informed about the services they need in their communities.
This fact sheet is part of a collection that explores the state of data disaggregation in four of New York’s key early childhood systems: Early Intervention, Child Care, Pre-Kindergarten & Preschool Special Education, and Behavioral Health. Please click here to view the full set, including recommendations for state and local leaders, as well as advocates, on ways to improve the collection and public reporting of disaggregated data across systems.
New York State Budget 2024-2025
April 23, 2024
New York had an opportunity to transform the way we serve children. However, with the notable exceptions of Early Intervention and continuous Medicaid coverage for children from birth to six, our elected officials mostly opted for investments that are for one year only.
Child Care Providers Excluded from Governor’s Workforce Proposal
April 10, 2024
Thousands of child care providers will be excluded from the next round of the Workforce Compensation Bonus Program under Governor’s Proposal.
Give Families Credit: Making New York Tax Policy Work for Families
February 23, 2024
This report examines how New York can consolidate existing tax credits and exemptions into the Working Families Tax Credit to significantly reduce child poverty and make New York a more affordable place to raise children.
Continuous Medicaid Coverage Factsheet
February 14, 2024
Continuous Medicaid coverage improves health outcomes for mothers and children, which boosts the health of every community.
Executive Budget Proposal 2024-2025
January 23, 2024
Children need bolder action in the New York State budget that changes systems in ways that are effective and equitable.
Re-Building the Early Intervention Workforce
January 23, 2024
New York must ensure infants and toddlers receive the life-changing Early Intervention services they are entitled to in a timely manner.
2024 Policy Priorities
January 5, 2024
Children in New York need bold legislative action to make the systems that serve them effective and equitable.
2023 Impact Update
January 1, 2024
The Children’s Agenda is a bold voice for children. We are pleased to share highlights of what we achieved for children in 2023 by making democracy work for kids.