ENFOQUE EN LA ALFABETIZACIÓN Y LA CIFRA NUMÉRICA
BCDI NYS está poniendo el foco en la lectura, la escritura y las matemáticas. ¡Tenemos que trabajar juntos para solucionar este problema!
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El informe muestra que las puntuaciones de las pruebas estandarizadas de la mayorÃa de los estudiantes negros y latinos están por debajo del nivel de grado. ¡Esto era cierto antes de la pandemia y sigue siendo cierto hoy!
Village, we know that family separations date back to slavery when they were used to punish, humiliate, and intimidate Black people as well as to profit from the exploitation of Black children and families. The Child and Family Well-being Fund is an acknowledgement that harm has been done and an investment in addressing it.
You should read this report.* But if you don’t have time to read it, here’s what you should know:
The Good. The Bad. And the Ugly:
DeberÃas leer el informe. Pero si no tienes tiempo para leerlo, debes saber lo siguiente:
El 15% de los estudiantes negros de Nueva York están leyendo y escribiendo a nivel de grado. El 14% están haciendo matemáticas a nivel de grado. El 21% de los estudiantes latinos/hispanos están leyendo a nivel de grado. El 15% están a nivel de grado en matemáticas. Eso significa que aproximadamente el 85% de los estudiantes negros y latinos no están siendo preparados para su futuro. ¡Eso no está bien! Tenemos que solucionarlo.
Bad: poverty is often (mis)identified as neglect resulting in harmful interventions by the child welfare system. The majority of reports to the state’s child abuse hotline are for issues related to poverty, not abuse. Child welfare system intervention can lead to unnecessary child and family separations that leave harmful effects on children, families, and communities – making the child welfare system feel like the family (over)policing system.
Ugly: Black families are disproportionately targeted for child welfare involvement. According to the report, 53% of Black children will “experience a child welfare investigation compared to one-third of all” children in the US.
The report calls for the creation of the Child and Family Well-being Fund, a 5-year pilot, that would invest $30 million in 10 communities in New York State with the highest rates of child welfare system involvement. And in the spirit of ‘nothing about us without us,’ the Fund would be rooted in community from development to directing investments.
“…[E]veryday surroundings offer significant advantages to children even if their own family is struggling. Yet decades of redlining and structurally racist disinvestment have resulted in vastly inequitable neighborhood conditions…The Fund would be a promising corrective shift to ensure that more New York children live in neighborhoods that are equipped to support their wellbeing.”
*Divulgación completa: nuestra vicepresidenta del directorio, Ashara Baker, es la directora estatal de la NPU y participó directamente en el informe de la NPU. Sin embargo, no participó en nuestra revisión del informe y no desempeñó ningún papel en nuestro trabajo sobre esta publicación destacada.