{"id":252441,"date":"2026-06-02T17:59:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252441\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T17:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:59:40","slug":"news-12-bronx-application-now-open-for-free-2-k-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252441\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Application Now Open For Free 2 K Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Parents in four New York City school districts can begin applying on Tuesday for the city\u2019s new free 2\u2011K program, which launches this September.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The rollout will provide free, full day care for 2,000 2 year olds this fall. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Most participating programs will operate for a full workday to support families with full\u2011time jobs. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Eric Adams and Gov. Kathy Hochul marked the start of the application period at an event Tuesday, noting the city\u2019s goal of ensuring families are aware of the new option.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The application window opens June 2 and closes Friday, June 26. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parents in four New York City school districts can begin applying on Tuesday for the city\u2019s new free&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-252441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252441","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=252441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}