Advocacy 101
The kind of advocacy that is related to law and policies
Legislative Advocacy
The Executive Branch of City Government.
What is the Mayor?
The ratio of votes needed to override the mayor's veto of a legislation.
What is a 2/3 Vote?
The first step of effective advocacy.
Identify the opportunity for growth / problem.
The system that supports the education of young children education prior to K-12.
What is Early Care & Childhood Education (ECE)?
People with firsthand experience of a public policy issue.
What are lived experts? What are community members?
One of the most local & accessible form government
What are Community Board?
The purpose of having the executive and legislative branches collaborate on the annual budgets.
What is checks and balances?
Stakeholders that are impacted by the problem.
The Maximum amount of suspension days allowed in the Solutions not Suspensions bill
20 days of suspension
The resources advocates use to bring about change
What is: time, Money, connections, people, experience, data & press
First in line for office if the Mayor is unable to serve.
Who is the Public Advocate? (Bonus: Who is Jumaane Williams?)
The first draft of the fiscal year budget.
What is the preliminary budget.
What are surveys? What are interviews? (or anything similar)
The formula that the city uses to determine funding for each district.
What is the Fair Student Funding formula?
Ways in which non-traditional stakeholders influence laws & policies
(will accept a variety of answers, to Adama's discretion)
One key factor in determining City Council representation
What is population size?
The best time to testify at budgetary City Council hearing.
What is after the mayor releases the preliminary budget? What is in March?
What is when the mayor releases the executive budget? What is in May?
Data generated by government and public agencies
What is administrative data?
Explain the various possible reasons behind NYC's chronic absentee and low enrollment rate.
Covid, inequitable funding formulas, lack of investment in ECE, discriminatory punitive practices all disproportionally effect our vulnerable and most easily disconnected communities.