NYC vows to provide child care for 100K families to ease burden of part-time school schedules
“NYC vows to provide child care for 100K families to ease burden of part-time school schedules” was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. Sign up for their newsletters here.
With students poised to be in school buildings only part-time this fall, New York City is racing to make child care available to 100,000 families by the time classes kick off in September, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday.
Child care has been a crucial but largely missing link to reopening the economy in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Most students will only attend in-person classes one to three days a week in the next school year, posing a logistical and child care burden for working families.