Campaign for Children
City Cuts to Summer Programs Hit NYC’s Poorest Communities the Hardest, Says New Report
Contact: Morgan Rubin, 646-517-1813, Campaign4ChildrenPress@gmail.com A new report has found that a majority of the 31,000 middle school students due to lose access to summer programs this year following planned city cuts come from the poorest New York …
Advocates, Elected Officials Call for Salary Parity for NYC Early Childhood Educators
Contact: Morgan Rubin, 646-517-1813, campaign4childrenpress@gmail.com Councilmember Stephen Levin, Public Advocate Tish James and other local elected officials joined early childhood educators, parents, children, and advocates at a press conference on …
NYC Gets an ‘Incomplete’ Grade In Early Childhood Education
This piece by CCC’s Associate Executive Director for Policy and Government Relations Stephanie Gendell was published in Urban Matters on February 3, 2016. Over the past two years, New York City has made good on an historic commitment to early childhood …
New Reports Document Need For Continued Expansion of Early Education, After-school and Summer Programs
Despite New York City’s recent expansion of prekindergarten for all 4-year olds and after-school programs for over 100,000 middle school students, there is still a tremendous need to further expand high quality early childhood education and after-schoo …
Survey of NYC After-School System Finds Unmet Demand in Elementary Schools, Need for Summer Programs Among Working Parents
For Immediate Release: September 23, 2015 Contact: Morgan Rubin, 646-517-1813 New York, NY – Surveys of program providers and parents involved in New York City’s after-school system reveal a high level of unmet need for programs serving elementary scho …
17 After‐School Sites will Close in Neighborhoods with Highest Need
17 after-school programs are slated to close on June 30th unless they are restored in the final city budget, leaving 1,882 elementary school children without summer programming or after-school programs next fall. The closure of these programs will be d …
