School Climate
As students continue to recover from the pandemic, mental health and social-emotional support are critical. We also need inclusive school cultures that prioritize recruiting and retaining educators and school staff of color, which is essential to meeting the needs of New York State’s diverse student population.
As schools continue to recover from the pandemic, mental health and social-emotional support and inclusive school cultures that prioritize recruiting and retaining educators, school leaders, and counselors of color are essential to meeting the needs of New York State’s diverse student population.
Our Equity-Centered Approach
We support policies that increase the number of counselors, educators and school leaders of color in school buildings, provide mental and health services in schools, holistically address chronic absenteeism, implement restorative justice practices, and other positive alternatives that keep students in the classroom. Such policies mitigate disruption in learning and dismantle barriers that prohibit children from attending school and feeling welcomed once there.
Latest Resource
Report: School Leader Diversity in New York State
School leader diversity benefits students from all backgrounds and is an important factor affecting students’ success in schools. Attending a school with a principal of color has positive impacts on academic outcomes for students of color. Yet school leader diversity statewide reveals that more than half of students attend schools without any leader of color.
Featured Reports and Resources Over the Years
Blog: In NYCPS, Brown v. Board remains…unfulfilled
Statement: EdTrust-New York Denounces New Policy on Immigration Arrests in Schools
Report: New York State’s Suspension Crisis
Blog: 5 Things to Know About the Influx of Migrant Students in New York
Data Snapshot
Only
of young adults in New York State said they had access to mental health supports in high school.
In the 2022-23 school year, nearly half of Black (46.4%) and Latinx (43.7%) students were chronically absent, compared to just 24.7% of White students.
More Resources
New York schools disproportionately impose out-of-school suspensions on Black students
Statewide, districts suspended a student at least once every minute during the 2016-17 school year NEW YORK – New York State’s education system suspends Black students at more than four times the rate of White students outside of New York City and more than five times...
Equity In Action: Yonkers’ My Brother’s Keeper Program Recognized As National Model
The promising early outcomes of Yonkers’ My Brother’s Keeper (MBK) program are well-known across New York State. Now, the program is getting national attention. My Brother’s Keeper Alliance, an initiative of the Obama Foundation, recognized the Yonkers program as a...
EdTrust-New York submits public comment in support of the revised ESSA regulations approved by the Board of Regents
November 1, 2018 Dr. Lisa Long New York State Education Department Via E-Mail: [email protected] Dear Dr. Long: We share the State Education Department and Board of Regents’ belief that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) represents an opportunity to advance...
EdTrust-New York releases statement commending steps to advance integration in New York City schools
The following statement can be attributed to Ian Rosenblum, Executive Director of EdTrust-New York: "All students deserve access to high-quality schools that reflect the rich diversity of New York. This plan is a positive step that will move New York City closer to...
Why I Teach: Finding Their Moment
I remember a conversation that I had with one of the vice presidents of a local university. This was during my first life, when I worked in college admissions. We were teasing through the numbers, trying to determine which of those newly admitted students might...
Community members discuss the state of educator diversity in Buffalo and Erie County
As EdTrust-New York revealed in its report, See Our Truth, Latino and Black students represent 43 percent of New York State’s K-12 enrollment yet only 16 percent of the state’s teachers—leaving significant numbers of students of all races and ethnicities without...