Legal Aid heralded the reforms as affecting 1,600 New York City public schools and establishing one of the first districtwide school-avoidance frameworks in the country. “The longer students experiencing school avoidance are out of school, the more difficult it becomes to help them return. A major part of the agreement is dedicated to standardizing the public schools’ system in instances of school avoidance. The lawsuit also highlighted a catch-22 of school avoidance evaluations. To help facilitate these policies, the school system will designate a “school avoidance liaison” who can be a teacher or school administrator at every school.