Thanks to a partnership with the NYC Administration for Children’s Services launched in 2016, dozens of parents, many of them immigrants, have graduated from CUNY’s Child Development Associate Certificate program, El Diario La Prensa reports.
A group of immigrant women is creating a workers’ cooperative for nannies on Staten Island, El Diario/La Prensa reports.
Cases of Korean parents leaving their children in the car in the sweltering heat – with the most recent incident taking place in New Jersey – often result from cultural differences and a lack of understanding in terms of child safety, experts tell The Korea Times.
The Brooklyn Bureau reveals some of the serious shortcomings of EarlyLearn NYC.
Cuts in subsidized day care and a new city funding system have left many centers bracing for closure, and thousands of children at risk of losing their slots. But at least one organization has reaped the benefits, The Jewish Daily Forward reports. A Jewish religious organization is set to receive $31 million in contracts.
Experts tout the importance of early childhood education and working parents rely on day care, but less than half of New York state’s 230,000 4-year-old children have access to those services. Reduced funding for day care centers and public preschools has exacerbated the problem.
