A Queens day care provided free preschool but didn't get paid the funding it was owed from May to August.
A Queens day care provided free preschool but didn't get paid the funding it was owed from May to August.The program gets over $1 billion in state and federal funds.After the New York City Department of Education didn't pay up, the cooks, the maintenance staff, and the teachers and administrators all kept working for free.
"It was extremely stressful because I had to come in and see staff literally crying tears," Bond said. "And when I say crying to some of them was saying, I'm getting eviction notices. The lights were turned off."Bond says the school's 2024 invoices totaled $66,548 plus another $43,600 from 2021."No. This was absolutely the worst. It was very scary because we started thinking the building was going to shut down because of this," Bond said.
The Department of Education said the back pay was from 2021 predating Mayor Eric Adams' administration.
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