Publications
CDF-Texas Asylum Explainer Fact Sheet
October 9, 2024
Effective October 1, the Biden administration has taken action to indefinitely extend current
restrictions on the ability to apply for asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, which have come to be
known as the “asylum ban.”
CDF-TX-Asylum-Explainer-Fact-Sheet-024-1.pdf (106.6 KB)
2024-2025 NY State Budget and Legislative Action Agenda
August 13, 2024
Bold action is required if our system of care for youth and families in crisis were to be truly transformed. We call for urgent attention to the following critical domains for policy-making and collective action that recognize the need for concrete support and resources across young people’s lives as they navigate their emerging adulthood after foster care.
Testimony of Julia L. Davis, Esq. Before the Committee on Children and Youth New York City Council Budget and Oversight Hearings
August 9, 2024
Children’s Defense Fund – New York (CDF-NY) thanks the chairs and members of the Committee on Children and Youth for the opportunity to submit written testimony related to the City’s FY 2025 Budget and the needs of young people who rely on the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and the Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD).
We Deserve Action, Not Just Words
August 9, 2024
Findings of a Survey of Former Foster Youth in New York City
2024_YNP_SurveyDataBrief.pdf (8.0 MB)
School Meals Support Ohio Student Health and Learning
July 26, 2024
Hunger in Ohio remains unacceptably high. One in six children, and as many as one in four children in certain counties, lives in a household that faces hunger—that’s 413,000 kids across Ohio. Yet more than one in three kids that live in a food insecure household doesn’t qualify for school meals.
Community Based Safety in LAUSD Must be Implemented with Greater Urgency
June 26, 2024
Police-free-LAUSD.pdf (122.3 KB)
LBUSD’s Draft LCAP Fails to Include Equity Gap Closing Actions and Goals
May 30, 2024
LBUSD-LCAP-Compliance.pdf (468.8 KB)
LCFF Equity Coalition Comments re: SBE Agenda, Items 2, 3 and 4 – May 8, 2024
May 3, 2024
AB 2441 (Kalra) – as introduced SUPPORT
April 16, 2024
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education Hearing on April 11, 2024; Golden State Teacher Grant Program
April 5, 2024