Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Thursday morning that the city’s 2-K program will expand to run for a full day and it will be year-round.
Free child care for 2-year-olds begins this fall. The program will serve a limited number of children with 2,000 seats.
Mamdani said the program, as originally planned, was too short and failed to meet the needs of working parents.
The program will now last from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
“That is gonna be 10 hours a day, 260 days a year, a typical school year, as we know, only lasts 180 days,” Mamdani said. “What this will do is save working parents at least $20,000 per child.”
There are plans to expand 2-K to 12,000 seats by 2027 in all five boroughs.
State funding is helping to make the program possible.
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