Boston will take another step toward universal pre-kindergarten with a $20 million investment to add seats across its diverse child care ecosystem.
Mayor Michelle Wu made the announcement outside the Acorn Center for Early Education and Care in Chinatown Wednesday morning. She described the investment as just the latest step in the gradual process of guaranteeing free, high-quality child care citywide.
The money, drawn from both the Boston Public Schools budget and the city's three-year-old Quality Pre-K Fund, will fund grants to bring in new community-based seats as early as this fall.to join the city's infrastructure of universal pre-kindergarten. Over the course of the next school year, city officials will work with providers to devise a way to include those home-based centers in Boston's existing system of grants, training and quality monitoring.
As a mother to two young boys, Wu said she knows the status quo can feel like a"chaotic, impossible juggle" of various "systems of enrollment, multiple pickups and drop-offs [and] lotteries." She said the long-term goal is to develop a"one-stop shop" for families seeking child care to choose among several high-quality options.
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