relentless advocates of educational justice for students across New York State — particularly those of color or living in poverty
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Equity Alert: The Growing Proficiency Crisis Among New York Students
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How We Work
We seek to promote equity-focused education policies and implement systemic change by:
Working alongside a diverse group of partners, including families, civil rights groups, organizations representing children with disabilities, faith and business leaders, education reform organizations, and others to create lasting change.
Delivering hard-hitting data analyses that shed light on the urgent challenges facing our public schools.
Presenting opportunities and solutions for state policymakers to advance equity and educational justice.
Driving public demand for policies and programs that raise academic achievement and close opportunity gaps.
The Latest From Ed Trust-NY
The Education Trust–New York Launches New York Campaign for Early Literacy
The Campaign is a statewide movement designed to harness the collective voices of individuals and civil rights, education, parents, and nonprofit organizations to improve student reading outcomes, from birth to age 8.
The Education Trust–New York Statement on NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s 2024 State of the State Address
Governor Hochul’s 2024 State of the State proposal includes several important proposals that will advance educational equity for New York children, students, and their families.
A look at New York State public school enrollment trends in 2022-23
An analysis of final enrollment data of NYS public schools for school year 2022-2023 finds that while enrollment is still trending down and public schools have had large enrollment losses, these declines are slowing down from their pandemic highs