One mother says her nonverbal son left the Downtown Brooklyn program speaking. Helen Keller Services now plans to expand to Long Island.

The $15 weekly co-pay disappears for voucher families, but over 16,000 more remain stuck on a waitlist.

Teachers at ACE Integration Head Start reportedly went a month without pay before the Bushwick center suspended classes for dozens of kids.

An air quality detector flagged elevated formaldehyde in every squishy toy tested, and a White Plains pediatrician says that alone should give parents pause.

The Lehman Grand houses 180 students in a restored 1932 Art Deco bank on Grand Concourse, with rents from $9,025 a year.

The Bronx classroom hadn't been inspected for lead paint since 2019, records show, as the boy's blood-lead level hit 51 mcg/dL.

NYC is loosening Eric Adams’ preschool curriculum mandate, allowing providers to seek approved alternatives while keeping the controversial GOLD assessment system.

Speaker Julie Menin secured $1.5M in the FY27 budget to scale the Wave Makers program and bring tens of thousands of free swim lessons to NYC second‑graders.

Aron Wieder announced Rockland’s child‑care voucher allocation will jump from about $11.1M to $18.7M — a roughly $7.6M increase officials say will cut waitlists and ease costs for working families.

A beloved Crown Heights children’s festival is returning to Brower Park on June 20, revived by local organizers with games, music and neighborhood programming.

Registration opened June 12 for expanded free Learn to Swim classes across NYC. The program covers ages 1–17, runs July 6–Aug. 28 and offers thousands of lottery seats.

PIX11 reports a historic Bronx charter school will close permanently, leaving families scrambling for new placements and raising questions about the wind‑down process.

One year after New York’s bell‑to‑bell phone law, districts report livelier commons and modest changes in outcomes while research finds mixed results.