In the Bronx, more than 250 day cares have shut down since the start of the pandemic. As a result, child care is expanding and contracting at the same time.
swept through the Bronx, Capellan had, she said, “the perfect mix of children and parents.” She shut down her facility in March, 2020, contracted, and spent the summer suffering from migraines and inflammation in her joints. All of her usual energy was gone. When she reopened, in August, she shouldered the cost of new cleaning supplies, and spent mornings and evenings disinfecting; she cooked to-go meals for families who couldn’t afford to come back full time; she visited with kids on Zoom.
. In 2017, the city launched 3-K for all. By most measures, these two programs have been hugely successful. By 2019, more than sixty-eight thousand children were enrolled in the city’s pre-K programs, and the 3-K program is on track to serve some thirty-three thousand children in the next two years. “This is the opportunity we’ve missed through our society for generations,” de Blasio told a crowd at the launch of the city’s 3-K-for-all program.
Across the city—particularly in the Bronx and Brooklyn—family day cares have long dominated the child-care business. Capellan’s day care is part of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, or, a community-development network that trains providers, helps them keep up to date on health-and-safety standards, and offers a food program to keep costs down. The child-care network was founded in the mid-nineties by Diana Perez, a sixty-three-year-old advocate and administrator.
Capellan’s in-home day care is licensed to accept sixteen children. In December, she came close to filling up for the first time in nearly two years. For the most part, she only accepts families willing to pay her fees. She charges two hundred and seventy-five dollars a week for an older child. She has trouble, however, turning away families that are using state-funded vouchers. Her subsidized families pay her a hundred and seventy-five dollars a week.
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