This blog is about everything. I will address various topics hopefully on a day by day basis. Topics will range from my personal experiences to information that I learned from watching various television shows. Who says television isn't educational.
Today is our state budget’s due date, but there is no budget. The governor has sent a budget extender to the legislature to pass that to keep the state operating until Thursday. Our child care system is still in crisis.
Click through to hear Marina's budget update.
Thousands of children and families will not have child care assistance if the final budget doesn’t include a significant amount of funding. Yet, the Governor is pushing policy unrelated to the budget instead of addressing the dire needs of our working families and child care workforce.
To bring you the latest from the state Capitol, watch this urgent update from our Co-Executive Director, Marina Marcou-O’Malley on where things stand why we can’t afford to stop pushing.
Now it’s time for action. As New York’s first mom governor, we need her to hear loud and clear that child care and equitable school funding are non-negotiables for New Yorkers:
Action 1 Child Care
The Governor’s executive budget included no additional support for CCAP or a permanent Child Care Workforce Retention Grant, leaving families and workers looking at a more vulnerable year ahead. It’s clear - child care must be a top priority.
While child care is our top priority as it is a crisis, getting Foundation Aid revisions right continues to be of the utmost importance. The Governor’s executive budget ignored the Rockefeller Institute’s recommendation to update the Regional Cost Index (RCI), which could effectively leave numerous high-need districts like New York City with less funding than they’d been bargaining on. In contrast, the Assembly and Senate have proposed raising the RCI.
The governor has been maintaining totally insufficient funding of our child care system and reluctant revising of the funding mechanism for our public schools, while adamantly refusing to implement any revenue raising options from the ultra-wealthy. Protecting billionaires before kids seems to be the governor’s preference.
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