On Equal Pay Day, March 12, we’ll be phone banking in support of New York’s child care workforce. We know that funding quality child care and early education is the best investment that New York’s leadership and the country at large can make. Research tells us that by doing the right thing up front – … Continue reading Equal Pay Day Phone Bank for the Child Care Workforce
The governor’s budget proposal falls short in providing the funding needed to adequately support child care providers and the families they serve. Now more than ever, families and child care educators are relying on Albany to respond. This response must prioritize an increase in wages for the child care workforce. The imminent release of the … Continue reading Time Sensitive Action: Push for $1.2B for Child Care in One House Budgets
The report from Cornell University’s 2023 Empire State Poll reveals that two in five New Yorkers with children had to forgo employment outside the home due to child care issues, exacerbating workforce shortages. Cornell University’s ILR Buffalo Co-Lab, along with state legislators and child care advocates, has been investigating the true cost of child care, … Continue reading The Status of Child Care in New York State
Did you know that students across New York are at risk of losing essential services and programs as federal COVID-era funding comes to an end in June, unless New York State steps up? The urgency is clear – our schools desperately need the state budget to include $2 billion to bridge this fiscal gap. As … Continue reading Time-Sensitive Action: $2B Needed to Save At Risk NY School Programs
As the threat of severe cuts looms in the governor’s budget proposal, we urgently need to come together to influence the fate of statewide school funding. This week, New York legislative leaders – Senate Leader Stewart-Cousins, Speaker Heastie, and their colleagues – are fine-tuning the State Senate and Assembly budget proposals (referred to as the … Continue reading Massive School Funding Threats! Take Action Today
Join us every Tuesday at 4:30 pm in March (one exception, we’ll be meeting Wednesday March 27) for an important phone bank uplifting the public education and child care systems that New York’s working families need. As New York’s legislative leaders, Senate Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie, and their colleagues in the State Legislature are … Continue reading Phone Bank for Education Equity and Universal Child Care
Families and child care educators are counting on Albany to address the ongoing crisis in child care and provider wages in this year’s budget — and that means raising the wages for the child care workforce. But we’re running out of time. Right now, New York’s legislative leaders, Senate Leader Stewart-Cousins and Speaker Heastie, and … Continue reading NY’s child care educators must earn a thriving wage
Pending funding cuts to the Learning to Work program in New York City could lead to the loss of critical services and jobs for approximately 15,000 students enrolled in Young Adult Borough Centers and transfer schools. Learning to Work, which pairs alternative schools with community organizations, provides additional staff to ensure students’ attendance, connect them … Continue reading Programs for high school students at risk of dropping out face ‘catastrophic’ funding cliff
“We thank the New York State legislature for voting down the Independent Redistricting Commissions’ proposed Congressional maps yesterday. “When Black and brown communities are split and isolated across multiple Congressional districts it dilutes their collective power and denies them the right to vote in political representation that will carry the best agenda for their communities … Continue reading Response to Legislature’s Rejection of Proposed Congressional Maps
