As the deadline for finalizing the city’s annual budget looms, parents and children want to make sure Mayor Michael Bloomberg hears their voices regarding the proposed cuts to child care.
The parents of 10,800 children are in jeopardy of losing their subsidized child care as early as the end of June due to a one-two punch of budget shortfalls and a change in how the city’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) subsidizes child care programs.