Head Start supports school readiness for children from birth to age 5, including free childcare, nutrition assistance, health screenings, and resources for pregnant women. It serves 42,997 people across New York…
“The next mayor’s top two priorities should be implementing free, universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds and expanding access to affordable childcare to substantially lower costs.”
“We already experienced a retrenchment of the city’s commitment to Universal Pre-K and Universal 3K programs. Parents can’t afford to lose more ground.”
“It is easy to see how mothers are affected by the prohibitively expensive costs of child care, but perhaps less so to understand it as a communal crisis.”
“In New York, poverty wages and lack of healthcare access reduce the availability of child care for families and lead to high turnover, destabilizing the lives of young children when…
3-K for All in NYC”will be the largest such program in the nation—a ‘game-changer’ according to the mayor. But de Blasio warned that pulling it off would be harder than…