City Council Caucus proposes solutions to address early childhood care crisis in NYC
The City Council’s Committee on Education held an oversight hearing on Feb. 16 on the proposed 3-K funding cuts and delayed reimbursements to early childhood providers. E
A Sheltering Arms spokesperson wrote in a statement to amNewYork Metro that: “Sheltering Arms was forced to close our Early Childhood Education programs due the Department of Education’s broken funding model, severely late payments and lack of consideration for low enrollment during the pandemic.” Early childhood providers were owed $460 million by the city’s Department of Education for work that was performed during the 2022 fiscal year. Kara Ahmed, the DOE deputy chancellor for early childhood education, said the city had faced “a very large issue” with more than 4,000 unpaid invoices totaling $460 million from the 2022 fiscal year. The city has since paid $122 million of the amount owed, Ahmed said.
Councilmember Julie Menin introduced a bill in December that would require the city’s education department to report every month on payments to early childhood care and education providers. The legislation would highlight the number of invoices in total, the number of invoices paid in full or partially paid, and the average amount of time it takes to process payments.
The bill aims to lessen the financial and logistical burden of childcare for families and expand the early childcare workforce. The bill would create a separate office of childcare and ensure pay parity between childcare providers and DOE teachers and potentially convert thousands of vacant commercial and community spaces into childcare locations.
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