NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday new funding for education programs, but questions about free child care programs remain.
Mayor Eric Adams said he is has a “glass half-full” outlook on the tentative state budget deal Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Monday. Tuesday, April 16, 2024., NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday new funding for education programs facing the chopping block — although the future of Pre-K and 3-K still remains unclear.
Although most of the programs will be baselined with recurring dollars, 3-K is another story. This program will only be funded for a year, city officials said, with its future far from secure. “You add settling long-standing union contracts, you add the uncertainty of our economic turnaround, you add 180,000 migrant and asylum seekers without the money coming from the federal level like it’s supposed to,” he said. “We looked at this fiscal crisis and we managed it in the appropriate way with our partners in the City Council.”Funding for universal Pre-K and 3-K has been an ongoing point of contention among the mayor, council members and parents.
Council Member Jennifer Gutierrez called the mayor’s announcement today “an important step” for education but added that she still has concerns about the future of the programs.
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