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Good morning! Mike here with Chalkbeat New York.
Parents of young kids in New York City have long known that finding child care can feel like searching in the dark. Information about programs is fragmented between different websites. It’s difficult to parse programs’ different eligibility requirements, much less find out about their prices and open seats. Some aren’t listed online at all.
That’s what city officials are trying to fix with a new map and directory launched today that brings some of that information into one place. Today’s top story has more on the city’s new tool.
Let us know what you think, and what else you think the city can do to make it easier for families to enroll in child care, at [email protected].
Local News
Mamdani rolls out first-ever citywide directory for NYC child care options
In an effort to close the information gap for families seeking child care, the Mayor’s Office of Child Care launched the NYC Child Care Hub, a new directory and map lookup of all child care programs in the city.
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Thumbnail image is a screengrab of the NYC.gov website.
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