Opinion: The City Needs to Hit Pause on Childcare Policy
Diana Perez, Gladys Jones and Ramon Peguero |
‘As a group, we do not believe the DOE’s plan for Family Child Care Networks can be successfully rolled out unless critical issues are addressed.’
Childcare
CityViews: More Childcare Rules Could Cause More Harm Than Good
Elizabeth Palley |
“Let’s make sure we consider the voices of the women who are providing the care to determine what will help them provide higher quality care.”
Investigations
Cuomo’s Day Care Regs Omit Thousands of Informal Providers
Kate Pastor and Roberta Nin Feliz |
Some 24,000 legally exempt daycare providers in New York City are enrolled to be paid through public assistance but are unlicensed and operate under very limited oversight.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
City Must Give Homeless Families Access to Childcare
Kendra Hurley and Abigail Kramer |
New York City has a high-quality childcare program called EarlyLearn. New York City has a large population of working families with young children in its homeless shelters. Why is it so hard to connect the two?
Education
Advocates to de Blasio: Fix Childcare System
Rosa Goldensohn |
The mayor-elect’s campaign was focused on pre-K, but some want a focus on day-care for younger kids. The city’s current system has empty seats but also faces overwhelming demand.
Health and Environment
D-Day for LICH Hospital
Jarrett Murphy |
SUNY trustees are expected to vote Thursday to shutter Long Island College Hospital—the second Brooklyn medical facility pushed to the brink of collapse in the past three months.
Economy
Federal Cuts Hit HIV Work in Brooklyn
Gerard Flynn |
Brooklyn leads the city in new cases of HIV, but changes in funding mean local prevention and treatment programs face obstacles in getting their message out.
Education
Workers, Kids Suffer in Corruption Probe's Aftermath
Charu Sudan Kasturi |
One of northern Manhattan’s largest non-profit organizations, only last year the focus of a city investigation into corruption allegations, now faces a fresh crisis – one that threatens to disrupt the lives of dozens of working parents and over 100 pre-school children.
Bronx
What Cuts Will Cost: Children's Learning, Parents' Work
Gerard Flynn |
As tabloids celebrate an on-time state budget, a look at what one budget cut at the city level will mean: fewer childcare slots, less school prep for kids and a tough choice for their working parents.
Bronx
Senate, Assembly Resist Cuomo Cuts To Services
Jarrett Murphy |
Legislators want to restore many human services that Gov. Cuomo proposed cutting. But the Senate and Assembly still differ by tens of millions of dollars on social funding, and some programs still face elimination.
