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Five one-pagers — English and Spanish.

Each PDF includes a QR code back to this site. Print, share, or hand to a reporter.

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What families are asking DYCD to release

13 public records still withheld about the 2026 COMPASS / SONYC awards.

  • Scoring sheets and reviewer notes for every awarded and rejected proposal.
  • The principal-input records DYCD says it collected.
  • Written rationale for the provider-diversity decisions.
  • A school-by-school crosswalk of outgoing and incoming providers.
  • + 5 more in the PDF
Download PDF — EnglishTambién en Español
Disability

For some students, routine IS access

What a real disability-access transition plan has to include before any provider swap.

  • Individualized transition planning for every student with an IEP or 504 plan.
  • An accommodations crosswalk between outgoing and incoming providers.
  • Staff continuity (warm handoff) for adults that disabled students trust.
  • Mandatory staff training on autism, ADHD, anxiety, sensory needs, and de-escalation.
  • + 4 more in the PDF
Download PDF — EnglishTambién en Español
Two students collaborating on a laptop after school.
Worker

Afterschool staff are frontline workers

A vendor swap is a layoff for the trusted adults kids depend on every day.

  • Group leaders, site directors, coaches, and teaching artists lose their jobs at nonrenewed sites.
  • Years of relationships with students and families are erased mid-stream.
  • Incoming providers are not required to interview, much less hire, current staff.
  • No public workforce-impact review has been released for any nonrenewed site.
  • + 2 more in the PDF
Download PDF — EnglishTambién en Español
Students standing in a circle inside a small black-box theater under stage lights.
Community

DYCD did not just change vendors. It disrupted ecosystems.

What kids actually lose when a long-running provider is removed without a transition plan.

  • MSAL and cross-school sports leagues mid-season.
  • Theater, debate, band, and arts programs built over multiple years.
  • Spelling bees, fencing, robotics, and other specialty clubs.
  • Peer community across siblings and grade levels.
  • + 3 more in the PDF
Download PDF — EnglishTambién en Español
Press

This is already a citywide story

Coverage and named providers affected by the 2026 COMPASS / SONYC nonrenewals.

  • Covered in Chalkbeat, Tribeca Citizen, and Bronx Times.
  • Council Member Julie Menin and Assemblymember Alex Bores on the record.
  • Coalition for Hispanic Family Services nonrenewed (Brooklyn).
  • Renaissance Youth Center nonrenewed (Bronx).
  • + 2 more in the PDF
Download PDF — EnglishTambién en Español