{"id":191506,"date":"2026-04-09T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:15:13","slug":"mamdani-announces-new-york-citys-2-k-will-expand-to-all-day-year-round-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191506\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani announces New York City’s 2-K will expand to all day, year-round program"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

Free child care for 2-year-olds begins this fall. The program will serve a limited number of children with 2,000 seats.<\/p>\n

Mamdani said the program, as originally planned, was too short and failed to meet the needs of working parents.<\/p>\n

The program will now last from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n

There are plans to expand 2-K to 12,000 seats by 2027 in all five boroughs.<\/p>\n

State funding is helping to make the program possible.<\/p>\n

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