{"id":295598,"date":"2026-07-14T16:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295598\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:48:13","slug":"news-12-bronx-nyc-announces-investment-in-special-education-at-preschools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/295598\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nyc Announces Investment In Special Education At Preschools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York City officials announced Tuesday a major investment to expand special education options at preschools.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani said $67.5 million will be going toward hiring new staff and making specialized programs across 14 different districts.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">This includes districts 14, 15, 20 and 21 in Brooklyn, and districts 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in the Bronx.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The expansion will provide children with quality, individualized instruction to strengthen academic, communication and social development inside and outside of the classroom, education officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cUniversal has to mean exactly that, universal,\u201d says Mamdani. \u201cHaving a child with a disability or a special need should not be the exception to that rule. Every preschooler deserves to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The city says new staff will help reduce evaluation wait times, expand bilingual assessment options and help families navigate the individualized education program (IEP) process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City officials announced Tuesday a major investment to expand special education options at preschools. Mayor Zohran&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-295598","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\/295598","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=295598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}