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Alliance for Quality Education

@aqeny.bsky.social
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New York State’s leading community-based organization in the fight for adequate public school funding and educational justice.

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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 16h
In response to new federal regulations governing a tax credit voucher program that'd let individual taxpayers receive up to $1,700 off their federal tax bill for contributions to scholarship-granting organizations, we released a statement. Read it here: www.aqeny.org/2026/10/02/vouchers-out-nyc/
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Home-based child care is essential to any truly universal system. New Mexico added 70+ providers and 700 new slots after announcing universal care. Now, New York let's learn from that investment ✊🏾 Read the @hechingerreport.org piece out today: hechingerreport.org/opinion-home...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones’s recent NYT Magazine personal essay has sparked important conversations about race + educational equity. This Saturday, we’re bringing that conversation to our community online. Join us tomorrow, September 26, at 8 PM: www.instagram.com/zansari8_/
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Change grows when we come together to share knowledge and build collective power. Join AQE and Dr. Jamaal Bowman, who’ll be sharing his new book, Unpolished, at our Diapers to Diplomas Conference on Oct. 15–16! Get your tickets: bit.ly/AQEConference
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A suspension can last a few days, but its impact can last so much longer. Join us October 7 from 6-8pm (dinner provided!) in Albany for a screening of ‘Preschool to Prison’ and a conversation on school discipline and Solutions NOT Suspensions in New York. Register: bit.ly/AlbanySNS
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Back to school season brings possibility! Our new report looks at how months of budget decisions shape the adults and programs students return to, and why stronger public investment can help keep local wealth from deepening inequities. Please read and share! www.aqeny.org/wp-content/u...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Yesterday we shared how payment delays are pushing child care providers into debt. Later in the day, NYC announced $43M to rebuild staffing and speed payments. Universal child care needs real public investment, which is why progressive revenue has to be part of the solution.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
What does it say about our priorities when child care providers are putting their homes at risk to keep classrooms open? NY has the wealth to do so much more. The solution: tax the rich to fund truly universal child care. Follow @InvestInOurNY to make that shift real www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/n...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Head Start has supported children and families for generations, but now RFK Jr. + the Trump administration are proposing changes that would seriously weaken the program: Take a minute to tell your reps in congress to #ProtectHeadStart: actionnetwork.org/call_campaig...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New York City already has much of the foundation it needs in existing center-based + family child care programs. What we need now is stable public funding, through taxes on the rich + NYC’s most highly profitable corporations, so universal child care can be a public system every family can rely on.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Join us online Thursday, August 20 for a Black August workshop with Natasha Capers and Barbara Gross of Liberation Spaces, where we’ll talk honestly about how race shapes our everyday lives and practice how to step in when harm happens.
 Let us know you'll be there at bit.ly/BlackAugust20
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Thanks to New York Focus and so many others for the important reportage we’re watching prompt some serious questions about equity and privacy, and who gets experimented on in the name of “progress” and “innovation.” Read our full statement on it here: www.aqeny.org/2026/07/16/a...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Still feeling the joy from Pride in NYC this past weekend on our float with our community. In a world that still pushes LGBTQIA+ folks and so many of our communities to the margins, this joy is part of what we fight for from child care through public school, love and care from the very start.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Team AQE is taking the week to recharge so we can keep showing up for our communities. We’ll be back July 6, rested and ready to get back to the work!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Last week we celebrated the graduation of Ed Warriors Cohort 9! Days like this remind us of our gratitude for the communities that have emerged from this leadership development program, and leave us excited for all the imagining and world building yet to come. Congratulations to the class of 2026!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Free speech is a right and student safety means protecting young folks’ ability to speak out without being treated as a threat. We can't allow Int-929 to sacrifice Black and brown kids' safety, @council.nyc.gov Speaker @speakermenin.bsky.social Submit testimony to amend the bill: bit.ly/4owAAdm
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We’re excited to be back dancing with you in the park, because movement and time together in community with each other can help us heal and keep going!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
By keeping the pressure high, you all helped move some big wins for public schools and child care this session. Albany left a lot unfinished, so as summer begins, we hope you’re able to take the rest you can and stay ready for what we’ll need to keep building together.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
NYC’s Charter Revision Commission is reviewing how city government works, and proposals could reach voters this November or in 2027. Democracy works best when we all have a say, so speak up from your experience, help our communities be heard, and spread the word with your neighbors and loved ones!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Thanks to @chalkbeat.org for spotlighting NYC’s child care voucher waitlist and the resources city leaders can use right now to meet more families’ needs. This excellent piece forefronts what’s at stake as available funding sits unused.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Join AQE’s contingent in Washington, D.C. on June 27 for the #Next250 Mobilization, a national gathering bringing people together across communities and generations to envision AND build a more just, democratic, and welcoming future. We’d love to see you there!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
After a year that began with real promise for moving New York toward truly universal child care, the final state budget lost momentum by failing to make sufficient investments in the child care workforce and the child care assistance so many New Yorkers rely on.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
From organizing and advocating to teaching and protecting, care is powerful. It takes strength to hold families and communities together while pushing for change. Wishing all the moms a happy Mother’s Day 💕🌷☀️
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We are calling for a pause on allowing AI in our kid’s classrooms
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We can't continue to meet mental health, substance use & homelessness with tickets + arrests: we need @nycmayor to build non-police responses. That's why we are calling for partnership & accountability from Mamdani’s new Office of Community Safety www.justicecommittee.org/post/letter-...
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LETTER: Almost 50 Orgs Write to Mayor Mamdani’s New Office of Community Safety
Dear Mayor Mamdani,We, the undersigned, 48 organizations, write to share feedback, concerns and recommendations as you continue to develop the Office of Community Safety (OCS), move towards its expans...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
There is still time to register for our first self-defense workshop this Friday with Malikah! This FREE three-part series on de-escalation & self-defense will build practical skills in how we stay safe and support one another. Register now! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Just like there are no kings in this country, there are no queens in our state either. Hochul is trying to sideline Black leaders so she can be front & center. A real deal happens when everyone at the table agrees, NOT just because she says.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Wishing rest and renewal to everyone able to take it this weekend. AQE out until Monday, May 4 👋🏾👋🏽
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Choosing to speak up about AI? Advocating for Palestinian rights or smaller class sizes? Raising concerns in your school community? The possibility of those moments shapes how people come to see their role in public life and building New York’s future. The buffer zone bills put all of that at risk.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Stopped by CM Marte’s office yesterday to talk about what the buffer zone bills would look like in his district and across the city, and left with a meeting scheduled for next week. He voted yes on both, and we’re looking forward to sitting down with him to share our MANY concerns.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As the legislature heads into a seventh budget extension, we were at the Capitol calling for a budget that reflects what New Yorkers have been asking for. A majority support taxing the rich so we can invest in child care and our public schools. www.aqeny.org/2026/03/31/n...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov and thank you to every one of you who called, emailed, showed up, and kept the pressure on our leaders to get us here. Now, City Council must sustain the veto, so let’s stay visible and make sure they know we’re paying attention.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Protest is how people in this city have won their rights, again and again, and that history is still being written right now. Take a minute to listen and keep reaching out to your council and the mayor to veto Intros 175-B and 1-B, today is deadline day.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
We showed up at City Hall last week, and we’re showing up again today. Mayor Mamdani has until tomorrow to veto Intro 175-B and 1-B, and what happens in these next hours matters. These bills expand NYPD control over where people can gather and who gets policed most when they do.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
More New Yorkers are questioning who technology’s promises of "progress" are really for, and that's why we're calling for a five year AI moratorium in NYC schools so we can slow down and focus on what actually supports learning and student well-being
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Check out Marina and Zakiyah’s op-ed published yesterday in the @buffalonews.com, laying out what it will take to make universal child care real for New York's families! Without real investment, any promise of universal child care becomes an empty one set up to fall short.
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
At a turning point for the country, we’re gathering around a Declaration of Interdependence that affirms our connections to each other and the future we’re building together. RSVP to join us April 16 to help imagine and shape what the next 250 years could be. bit.ly/NYNext250
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Next250 NY Town Hall
Food, Performances & Panel Discussion
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Governor Hochul says our families are her fight, but nearly 20,000 kids statewide are stuck on waitlists while child care programs struggle to stay open + the workforce is paid poverty wages. The budget she signs must invest in the workforce + expand access by taxing the rich. bit.ly/ListenUpAlbany
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
More than half of all counties across New York State have stopped enrolling eligible families in the state’s child care assistance program (CCAP), leaving tens of thousands of families stuck on waitlists while the cost of care keeps rising. Read up: nysfocus.com/2026/03/31/c...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
As Albany keeps negotiating our state budget past their deadline, let’s make sure our communities’ priorities are impossible for them to ignore! bit.ly/ListenUpAlbany
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
See @governor.ny.gov even billionaires like John Catsimatidis are on board with taxing the rich so child care is actually affordable and accessible to all. We see your budget extension today and hope that means you’re weaving some seriously progressive revenue measures into the final deal!
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Billionaires are shaping the decisions impacting our lives and Governor Hochul keeps choosing their priorities over ours. Show up with us tomorrow, March 31, and make it impossible for her to ignore our calls to tax the rich and invest in our communities. actionnetwork.org/events/rally...
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RALLY IN RESPONSE TO: EPSTEIN LIST BILLIONAIRE & GOV. HOCHUL DONOR JOHN A. CATSIMATIDIS
Join us on March 31 at 12:00 PM for a rally calling on Governor Hochul to stop protecting billionaire Epstein donors like John A. Catsimatidis and start standing with everyday New Yorkers. While worki...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
As our state budget is negotiated behind closed doors by a small group of leaders, a major decision about how New York City’s schools are governed has been folded into the equation, and is now being used as a bargaining chip. Send a letter to your legislators now! actionnetwork.org/letters/this...
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This is about how power is used in our state budget negotiations.
As our state budget is negotiated behind closed doors by a small group of leaders, a major decision about how New York City’s schools are governed has been folded into the equation, and is now being u...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Yesterday we showed up outside Speaker Heastie’s Bronx office calling him to invest in the child care workforce and to clear its waitlists in the final enacted budget. Tax the rich, not the poor — @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
While tens of thousands of children sit on child care waitlists, NYS is still handing out critical revenue to the ultra-wealthy. We have the resources to @investinourny.bsky.social It’s just a matter of priorities, @governor.ny.gov @speakercarlheastie.bsky.social @leaderasc.bsky.social
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The school-to-prison pipeline starts with suspensions. Join us in Albany on May 11 to demand solutions, not suspensions. secure.everyaction.com/CVe4y1dcQUyn...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Call your councilmember TODAY and tell them to vote NO on Intros 1-B and 175-A. secure.ngpvan.com/YwaFsxHlnEef...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
As censorship and repression are rising across the country, these bills would hand even more discretion to armed officers to decide who gets to gather and be heard. We must be clear that OUR POWER IS NOT THEIRS TO TAKE. secure.ngpvan.com/YwaFsxHlnEef...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This video breaks down how child care in NYS works, and why treating it as the public good that it is would change EVERYTHING. actionnetwork.org/letters/chil...
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Alliance for Quality Education @aqeny.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
We’re not letting up as this final budget gets negotiated. The Assembly, unlike the Senate, left child care workers out of their one-house proposal, so we’re heading to the Bronx this Friday to make it clear that has to change in the final budget. Tax the rich and invest in the child care workforce.
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