If we care about outcomes for children and families, we must invest in our early childhood education workforce.

I wrote a letter for the Action Network letter campaign: NY’s Child Care Educators Must Earn A Thriving Wage❣️
Please Join Me, Click the Link, Send a Letter👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
actionnetwork.org/letters/demand…
Families & Child Care Educators Counting on Albany to Raise Child Care Workforce Wages❣️

Please join Rita C. Joseph, Kamillah M. Hanks, parents, students, & the Emergency Coalition to Save Education Programs on 4/4 for a Staten Island Town Hall on the education budget. Many important education programs are on the chopping block. Register at forms.office.com/r/SWEessDAW5

Link to our full statement here:
empirestatechildcare.org/statement-in-r…

📢 Join AFC & the Emergency Coalition to Save Education Programs on the steps of City Hall before Monday's education budget hearing! Critical programs & services our students can’t afford to lose are on the chopping block as soon as July. Register: forms.office.com/r/igasB2K3bJ

Cornell just released new data on the child care crisis in New York. It’s…bleak.
My full statement’s below.
ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/cor…

For #WomensHistoryMonth , we’re thrilled to highlight the work of several trailblazing women in our community. This week, we want to elevate the work of an incredible woman who tirelessly serves the families and children of NYC: Day Care Council of New York Executive Director Tara Gardner.

Congratulations to DaMia Harris-Madden on her appointment as Commissioner of NYS OCFS.

We look forward to working with you!

governor.ny.gov/news/governor-…

With child care costs still unaffordable for many families–and with early childhood professionals already struggling to make ends meet–the cuts to PreK and 3K will make it difficult for families and educators to live and work in the city.”
Day Care Council of New York

harlemworldmagazine.com/adams-accused-…

Thank you Rita C. Joseph NYC Council Member Althea Stevens Council Member Pierina Sanchez for hosting tonight's Bronx Town Hall on the education budget! And thank you to all the Bronx parents and youth who showed up! We need elected leaders to save the many important education programs on the chopping block.

Our govt doesn’t do enough for families. Mayor Eric Adams’s cuts to preschool, afterschool & summer programs will push many out. Providing childcare to parents & children might be the single smartest, most compassionate public investment we could make.
gothamist.com/news/most-new-…

Guest Essay:
It's time to address New York's child care crisis by Shoshana Hershkowitz (campaign manager for the Empire State Campaign for Child Care) - newsday.com/opinion/commen…

Proud to share my op ed in today’s edition of Newsday . We at the Empire State Campaign for Child Care know that the state must invest in the child care workforce and New York’s working families this year in our budget. #NYSUniversalChildCare

Thank you Rita C. Joseph Council Member Lincoln Restler for hosting the Brooklyn Town Hall to save education programs! NYC students are at risk of losing 3-K & preschool special education classes, 450 social workers, 100+ community schools, 100 shelter-based coordinators, restorative justice, & more.

Happening now: Robin Hood has released an alarming Poverty Tracker.

Headlines are 1 in 4 children now in poverty and 500k more NYers, up to 2 million.

We must invest in our children, and our families by investing in high-quality universal child care.

Show us the money to save the many education programs on the chopping block. We went to Albany. Now we're headed to Brooklyn. Please join Rita C. Joseph for an education budget Town Hall on Wednesday (2/21) at 6:30pm at St. Francis College. Register here: forms.office.com/r/xn2zEVMKqx

Since DOE has reduced outreach efforts, we're stepping up to get the word out to young families to sign up for free, full day 3K & PreK!

On Friday, PC members hit the streets to help NYers take advantage of this impt City program.

S/o to NYC Council Member Althea Stevens + her team for organizing!

#3KDayofAction click the link, We are waiting for you right here in the Bronx NY Join Us 👉🏽schools.nyc.gov/PreK

Council Member Riley visits Williamsbridge NAACP EarlyChildhoodEducationCenter & has a Civics lesson with his precious daughters Luv It ❤️

On 2/28, join us for a panel on responsibilities & expectations for serving on a nonprofit board featuring Day Care Council of New York's Tara N. Gardner! Check out the full agenda & register today: bit.ly/3H7dIvP