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Our Mission

​The members of the Action for Reform in Special Education (ARISE) Coalition have joined together to provide a collective and powerful voice in support of students with disabilities and learning differences in New York City public schools. We seek to improve day-to-day experiences and long-term outcomes for these students and champion systemic reform to:
  • Improve services and support for students with disabilities and learning differences;
  • Assure meaningful inclusion and integration;
  • Promote greater transparency and accountability;
  • Mitigate practices that lead to discrimination and disproportionality in rates of referral, suspension, and segregated placements; and
  • Increase positive outcomes and options for all students. 
View our agenda for change or our past publications.
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Supporting Organizations and Individuals

  • Adaptive Design Association
  • Advocates for Children of New York
  • AHRC New York City
  • The Bronx Defenders
  • Bronx Independent Living Services
  • Brooklyn Center for the Independence of the Disabled
  • Brooklyn Defender Services
  • Center for Hearing and Communication
  • Center for the Independence of the Disabled, New York
  • Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York 
  • Citywide Council on High Schools
  • Citywide Council on Special Education
  • Citywide District 75 Council
  • Coalition for Educational Justice
  • Collaborative for Inclusive Education
  • Community Inclusion & Development Alliance (CIDA)
  • The Cooke School and Institute
  • Disability Rights New York
  • Dylexia Advocacy Action Group
  • Dyslexia (Plus) Task Force
  • Everyone Reading, Inc.
  • Extreme Kids & Crew
  • ​The Go Project
  • Goddard Riverside Community Center
  • INCLUDEnyc
  • ​The Learning Disabilities Association of New York State
  • Lenox Hill Neighborhood House
  • The Literacy Academy Collective
  • The Mental Health Association of New York
  • Metropolitan Parent Center of Sinergia, Inc.
  • Mobilization for Justice, Inc.
  • National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
  • New Alternatives for Children
  • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
  • New York Legal Assistance Group
  • New York Performance Standards Consortium
  • Parents for Inclusive Education
  • Parent to Parent of New York State
  • Parent to Parent New York, Inc.
  • ​Partnership for the Homeless, Education Rights Project
  • Promise Project
  • Protect NYC Special Education (Proteger la Educacion Especial de NYC)
  • READ 718
  • Special Support Services, LLC
  • Teachers College Inclusive Classrooms Project
  • Teach For America – New York
  • United Federation of Teachers
  • United For Brownsville
  • United We Stand
  • Unity Preparatory Charter School of Brooklyn
  • Vibrant Emotional Health
  • Wishes of Literacy

  • Ursula Abbott Connolly
  • Cathy Albisa
  • Steven J. Alizio, Esq., M.S.Ed
  • Mark Alter, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University
  • Catherine Baez
  • Celia M Blackman
  • ​David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education, Brooklyn College and The CUNY Graduate Center
  • Bay Brown
  • Heather Clarke Mackin
  • Ted Chang
  • María Cioè-Peña, MSEd, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University
  • Tamesha Coleman
  • Ziograin (Zio) Correa, Sr., M.S.Ed
  • April Coughlin, School of Education, SUNY New Paltz
  • Susan Crawford, Director, The Right to Read Project
  • Sahre Davis, Parent/Community Advocate
  • Ruth DiRoma
  • Richard and Lora Ellenson
  • Yuvania Espino
  • Charissa Fernandez
  • Esther Klein Friedman, Ph. D
  • Ramona Garcia
  • Andrea Giammettei
  • Olga C. Gonzalez
  • Jay Gottlieb, New York University
  • Tiesha Groover
  • Emily Hellstrom
  • Paul Hutchinson
  • Rima Izquierdo
  • Patricia Jewett
  • Donna Johnson
  • Revere Joyce
  • Joseph Karam
  • Jeannine Kiely
  • Laura Kennedy
  • Rebecca Kostyuchenko
  • Shirley Kwok
  • Mylinda Lee
  • Jeanna McGlinnis
  • NeQuan C. McLean 
  • Aurelia Mack
  • Matthew Mandelbaum
  • Shelly McGuinness
  • Diana Mendez
  • Susana Montes
  • Elise Murphy
  • Srikala Naraian, Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University
  • Dana Neider
  • Michelle Noris
  • Kathleen Nowak
  • Miriam Nunberg, Special Education Advocate and Educational Equity Consultant
  • Jaclyn Okin Barney, Esq.
  • Naomi Peña
  • Samantha Pownall
  • Cathy Rikhye, Ed.D., Department of Curriculum and Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University 
  • Raphael Rivas
  • Melanie Rivera-Mora
  • Marilyn Rubinstein  ​
  • Miguel L. Salazar
  • Jennifer and Peter Sellar
  • Iriss Shimony
  • Jon Sigall
  • Jo Anne Simon, Jo Anne Simon, P.C.
  • Karin Spraggs
  • Mark Surabian, MA, ATP, Instructor, Assistive Technologies, Pace Graduate School of Education
  • Tanzea Taylor
  • Constance Van Rolleghen
  • Pooja Vekaria, Neuropsychologist​
  • RueZalia Watkins
  • Chevion Weaks-Lopez, Queens High School Presidents' Council
  • Abraham Weitzman

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