What DYCD must release.
Until these documents are public, DYCD — not parents — owns the incomplete citywide picture of the 2026 afterschool rebid.
What the public record currently supports: 24 school sites where a recent incumbent can be matched to a 2026 nonrenewal or replacement, and 11 of those with explicit public opposition. See the school tracker.
The list below is what would be needed to certify the picture citywide. Until DYCD releases it, every parent claim is a floor, not a ceiling.
File the official transparency / FOIL request to DYCD now — pre-written, opens in your own email, CCs Comptroller and Council oversight chairs.
Send the FOIL letter- 01
Complete incumbent-to-awardee crosswalk, school by school
Not releasedWithout this, no one outside DYCD can confirm who was displaced where. Every other claim depends on it.
- 02
Principal ranking forms for every COMPASS/SONYC site
Not releasedPrincipals were permitted to express preferences. DYCD has not shown which schools ranked the incumbent first.
- 03
School-by-school override memos or award-justification records
Not releasedWhen the awardee differs from the principal's ranking, the public record needs the written rationale.
- 04
Incumbent and awardee evaluation scores by category
Not releasedPPB rules require competitive scoring. Categories, weights, and totals must be publicly inspectable.
- 05
The precise definition, weight, and application of 'provider diversity'
Not releasedDYCD's defense relied on this concept. The public has not seen how it was operationalized.
- 06
Every vendor protest, debrief request, decision, and appeal
Not releasedProcurement integrity is verifiable only when challenge outcomes are public.
- 07
Old and new seat allocations and per-site funding amounts
Not releasedContinuity of service depends on whether seats and dollars actually transfer.
- 08
Licensing and registration status of each 2026 awardee
Not releasedSome awardees are smaller orgs. Capacity to run a city-funded program at scale must be documented before September.
- 09
Staff-retention and transition plans, by site
Not releasedAdult continuity is the difference between a program and a placeholder. Families need named transition leads.
- 10
School-partnership agreements between awardees and principals
Not releasedDOE and DYCD share these buildings. Written agreements show whether the school actually consented.
- 11
Disability-access plans for IEP/504 students at every site
Not releasedAccess is a federal civil-rights obligation, not an add-on. Plans must exist before transition, not after a complaint.
- 12
Parent-communication and late-pickup plans for the August/September transition
Not releasedWorking families need notice in writing, in their language, before the first day.
- 13
Full RFP scoring rubric and the final scoring decisions for every applicant
Not releasedA six-year, hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars award cannot be audited from a press statement.
- 14
Evaluator qualifications and panel-selection procedure
Not releasedWho scored these proposals, what youth-development or school experience they had, and how DYCD chose them.
- 15
Evaluator training, written instructions, and conflict-of-interest disclosures
Not releasedIncluding how reviewers were told to treat prior site-specific performance and whether incumbent experience was treated as bias.
- 16
Inter-rater reliability / scoring-variance analysis
Not releasedWere substantially similar proposals scored differently by different readers? Without variance analysis, the rubric is unverifiable.
- 17
Site-level parent/provider survey instruments, response counts, and how results were scored
Not releasedIf parent or provider feedback shaped scoring, the public needs the instrument, the response rate, and the scoring methodology.
- 18
RFP / contract language on subcontracting (reported ~30% cap)
Not releasedIf awardees may subcontract a large share of programming, the public needs to see the rule and ask why a functioning integrated provider was removed at all.
Help us request these.
Send the official transparency letter — it asks DYCD for the first set of these documents and CCs the Comptroller and Council oversight chairs.
