Statewide Victories:

• 2006-NYS Court of Appeals makes final decision in Campaign for Fiscal Equity case..
• 2007-AQE won a $5.5 billion funding commitment four-year funding commitment with 70% going to high need school districts and within these school districts 75% going to the neediest schools and best practices through the Contract for Excellence. That year we helped to win the first expansion in seven years of pre-kindergarten statewide. .
• 2008- AQE helped win a $879 million funding increase as well as prevention of $836 million in mid-year funding cuts.
• 2009- We spearheaded the Campaign for Better Schools that won some changes to mayoral control in New York City, but more importantly effectively challenged the top down Bloomberg-Klein reform agenda. The same year we played a central leadership role in a campaign to secure a temporary surcharge on income taxes of high-end earners in order to help close $4 billion of the state’s deficit; an action that not only protected education, but vital human services across the board.

Local Victories:

• Syracuse: AQE won the expansion of pre-kindergarten by 100 slots and creation of school-based literacy programs
• Rochester: AQE won the creation of an in-school suspension program that included instruction for students as an alternative to out of school suspension and stopping the layoff dozens of art teachers.
• Buffalo: AQE won the creation of a weekend program for English language learners and their families