Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK)
CCC Testimony: New York State Executive Budget Proposals for Human Services State Fiscal Year 2019-2020
CCC recognizes the need to be fiscally prudent. That said, we are very disappointed that the State’s Budget cuts and curtails services for the most vulnerable children and youth in the state, most glaringly impacting negatively the children of New York …
CLC Learns about Early Childhood Education in Fifth Week
Week five of the CLC focused on the youngest New Yorkers and the early childhood programs that the City has for them including homevisiting, subsidized child care, Head Start and pre-kindergarten. Early childhood education and homevisiting programs hav …
CCC Testimony: New York State Senate Finance Committee and New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee Hearing on Executive Budget Proposals for Education State Fiscal Year 2016-2017
CCC testified at the New York State Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means hearing on January 27, 2016 regarding the State Fiscal Year 2016-2017 Executive Budget proposals on education. While many of the Executive Budget proposals are steps in the …
PRE-K FOR ALL: 22,000 FAMILIES APPLY FOR PRE-K IN FIRST DAY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 17, 2015 CONTACT: pressoffice@cityhall.nyc.gov, (212) 788-2958 PRE-K FOR ALL: 22,000 FAMILIES APPLY FOR PRE-K IN FIRST DAY With seats for every child, 70,000 expected to apply for free, full-day, high-quality pre-K Applicat …
City’s Pre-Kindergarten For All Initiative Reaches Children Across the 5 Boroughs with Children in the Poorest Districts Benefiting Greatly
Click here to download pdf of this analysis and to view maps. There are nearly 1.8 million children living in New York City and about half a million of them are under the age of five. Nearly 30 percent of all NYC children reside in poverty, and in som …
Read our Op-Ed: New York’s Budget Debate Must Focus More on Children
This Opinion Piece by CCC’s Executive Director Jennifer March was posted on WNYC’s Schoolbook on February 11, 2015. Over 1.7 million children live in New York City, the largest child population in the country. A staggering one-third of these children l …
