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Kindergarten Funding Cut by Children’s Services

Aired: March 27, 2009 3 Comments

Reporter: Jessica Hopper
Producer: Fahad Faruqi

Child care will take another hit in the coming months. The commissioner of children’s services testified earlier this week that more budget cuts to the tune of $55.2 million are on the way. Reporter Jessica Hopper visits the Williamsbridge NAACP Early Education Center in the Bronx to find out how this will affect them.

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Cheryl Dewitt said:

Thank You Jessica and team for supporting our children and bringing this detrimental situation to the attention of your subscribers. My hope is they will join us in telling ACS (Agency for Children Services)
and all elected officials closing classrooms should never be a solution to their (ACS) economic budget deficit again on behalf of our students, parents and staff…THANK YOU

# 11 April 2009 at 9:05 am

H. Koya said:

Cutting services to kindergarten is outrage. Parents must continue to have a choice. Extended hours of care at pre-school setting at a center based program or a shorten kindergarten day at public school.

# 15 April 2009 at 4:57 pm

Beth Bernett said:

The nurturing educational and social services provided at community-based organizations like the wonderful Williamsbridge NAACP Early Education Center, are an INVESTMENT in the children who will be our future neighbors, voting citizens, inventors, workers and artists. They provide families with peace of mind, and they succeed at getting greater family involvement than is often found at public schools. Cutting funds to these programs is short-sighted and shameful. These programs, like the children they serve, are priceless.

# 23 April 2009 at 8:59 pm