2012-2013 State Aid
to Public Schools
Under the budget approved by the State Legislature on March 30, 2012, New York's school districts will receive $20 billion in state aid for the 2012-2013 school year, an increase of about $750 million (or 3.9 percent) compared to 2011-2012. Find your school district's state aid amounts on the RocDocs database, powered by Rochester's Democrat and Chronicle.
Reaction to the
New Budget Deal
Click here to see media coverage of today's press conference reacting to education funding in the new budget deal.
Recent Advocacy
Memo on behalf of Winning Beginning NY, the Alliance for Quality Education, and Citizen Action of New York, to fix the prekindergarten (Pre-K) maintenance of effort (MOE) requirements and address the Pre-K teacher certification issue. March 2012.
Letter to:
Senator Joseph E. Robach advising him on the $9M in child care subsidies added to the Executive Budget proposal. March 16, 2012.
Letter to: Assembly Member Keith L. Wright advising him on the $9M in child care subsidies added to the Executive Budget proposal. March 16, 2012
 QUALITYstarsNY School- and Family-based Standards Released! Find them here.
Implementing QUALITYstarsNY is a new document describing the implementation of QUALITYstarsNY and "where we are now." March 2012.
Boosting New York’s Economy Short- and Long-Term Economic Gains through Quality Early Learning,
a new report by America's Edge. March 2012.
Unlocking the Potential of QRIS: Trends and Opportunities in the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge Applications, a new policy brief from BUILD and the QRIS National Learning Network in collaboration with the Early Learning Challenge Collaborative. February 2012.
See a new brochure about QSNY that explains who benefits from it, how it works and who can participate.
See additional QUALITYstarsNY resources on our QSNY webpage.
Download a description of QUALITYstarsNY: Getting New York State’s Children Ready for Kindergarten and College
Watch the video:
What Is QUALITYstarsNY?
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Latest Resources
Early Childhood Education: Frozen Funding Leads to Cracks in the Foundation. This AQE, Citizen Action and WBNY report details how funding for the Universal Pre-Kindergarten grant has been reduced drastically since 2007, despite being proven to increase the likelihood of a child going to college, earning higher income, and avoiding incarceration.
The report makes the case for adding funding for pre-kindergarten and other early childhood education programs in the 2012-13 state budget. See press coverage of this report and photos of the press conference.
Starting School at a Disadvantage: The School Readiness of Poor Children, a new report by the Brookings Institute. This paper examines the reasons why poor children are less ready for school and evaluates three interventions for improving their school readiness.
Preschool programs offer the most promise for increasing children’s school readiness. March 2012.
State Early Care and Education Public Policy Developments: Fiscal Year 2012 This National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) report is a highlight of state developments, categorized by issue areas. It highlights selected enacted legislation; new initiatives approved by the state executive branch; major funding increases, decreases, or level-funding; and additional significant fiscal or policy changes that impact early childhood education for Fiscal Year 2012.
A Count for Quality: Child Care Center Directors on Rating and Improvement Systems, a new report by the National Women's Law Center and CLASP is based on interviews with a diverse group of child care center directors who have a range of experience participating in QRIS in nine different states. The insights offered by child care directors are particularly valuable as an increasing number of states adopt QRIS and the federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge competitive grant program highlights QRIS as a central component of strong state early learning systems. QRIS hold great promise for boosting the quality of care and lifting up the child care profession and child care system. February 2012.
Scared Sick: the Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, a new book by Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith S. Wiley, demonstrates how chronic fear in infancy and early childhood— when we are most helpless—lies at the root of common diseases in adulthood. Based on the latest research, Scared Sick highlights case studies and cutting-edge scientific findings to show how our innate fight-or-flight system can injure us if overworked in the early stages of life. Persistent stress can trigger diabetes, heart disease, obesity, depression, and addiction later on. January 2012.
See Early Years Matter, a new video produced by the Early Care and Learning Council (a WBNY Co-convener).
Watching Teachers Work
Using Observation Tools to Promote Effective Teaching in the Early Years and Early Grades, a policy paper by Lisa Guernsey of the New America Foundation, and Susan Ochshorn - Identifying good teachers is a high priority in education reform, yet the debate rarely focuses on how education might improve if policies were based on teachers’ individual interactions with their students. This report argues for improving early education up through the third grade (PreK-3rd) by actually watching teachers in action using innovative observation tools in combination with evaluation and training programs. November 2011.
Toward Better Policy for Early Care and Education in the United States, an Alliance for Early Childhood Finance policy brief. October 2011.
The Center for Children’s Initiatives, a Winning Beginning NY Co-convener, issued a report with findings on what happens to New York City working families that lose child care. This case study, WHEN FAMILIES ELIGIBLE FOR CHILD CARE SUBSIDIES DON’T HAVE ONE, included interviews with 83 randomly selected families who contacted CCI for assistance with child care - who were eligible for a child care subsidy but unable to obtain one.
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