{"id":407298,"date":"2026-07-22T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407298\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T00:39:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T00:39:22","slug":"revamped-online-portal-aimed-at-helping-sf-families-find-preschool-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/407298\/","title":{"rendered":"Revamped online portal aimed at helping SF families find preschool options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has launched a new online portal for childcare and preschool access, designed to bring free and low-cost options to families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sf.gov\/eligibility-for-free-or-low-cost-preschool-and-child-care\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Early Learning for All Parent Portal<\/a>, or ELFA, will be a website where parents can apply to preschools, identify financial assistance, and find childcare programs based on location or language.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Lurie said: &#8220;Making childcare affordable lifts a huge burden for parents and strengthens the future of our entire city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor\u2019s office, providers have been, and are in the process of, joining the city&#8217;s ELFA network, bringing at least 30 new childcare providers onto the portal. Currently, the website contains more than 550, which is nearly 70% of the city&#8217;s licensed infant and toddler care programs.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, families earning up to 150%\u202fof\u202farea median income, which is about $243,000 for a family of four, could receive free care for an ELFA network program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has launched a new online portal for childcare and preschool access, designed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-407298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}