{"id":189565,"date":"2026-04-08T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189565\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:51:15","slug":"nyc-asks-parents-to-help-shape-child-care-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189565\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC asks parents to help shape child care expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York City is asking parents to weigh in as it expands free child care options.<\/p>\n<p>Some families have received postcards inviting them to complete the New York City Parent Survey, while others can participate online.<\/p>\n<p>City officials say the feedback will help shape the rollout of universal child care, including 2,000 free 2-K seats and more than 1,000 new 3-K seats planned for this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Emmy Liss, head of the Mayor\u2019s Office of Child Care, joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d Wednesday to discuss the survey and how parent input will guide the city\u2019s plans.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is asking parents to weigh in as it expands free child care options. Some families&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2274,2275,9,24,11,10,12,380,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-189565","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-mornings-on-1","9":"tag-mornings-on-1","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","16":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}