{"id":40149,"date":"2026-04-11T18:47:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=40149"},"modified":"2026-04-11T18:47:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T18:47:47","slug":"mayor-mamdani-announces-2-k-will-be-full-day-and-full-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/40149","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdani announces 2-K will be full-day and full-year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced that, beginning this fall, most 2-K seats will operate on a full-day and full-year schedule \u2014 a major step toward delivering truly universal child care and confronting New York City\u2019s affordability crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Representing a majority of the first 2,000 2-K seats available this fall \u2014 and setting the standard for future expansion \u2014 the program will run from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., 260 days a year, replacing the traditional 180-day school calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The shift reflects the Mamdani administration\u2019s commitment to aligning early childhood education with the realities facing working families and reducing the need for costly, patchwork child care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor many families working nine to five, an eight to three program isn\u2019t going to cut it. For too long, parents have been forced to choose between their livelihood and their children, or to drain their savings just to make it through the workday. That ends now,\u201d said\u00a0Mayor Mamdani.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversal child care must meet the real lives of working people. That begins with full-year, full-day 2-K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York City Public Schools have always been the backbone of our communities, and 2-K is our opportunity to support families even earlier in their child\u2019s life,\u201d said\u00a0Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a historic moment, and I am proud to partner with Mayor Mamdani to build an early child care and education system that is truly universal, equitable, and tailored around the real needs of the families we serve.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 2-K rollout is part of the Mayor\u2019s broader push to guarantee child care for all New Yorkers with children ages six weeks to five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani announced that, beginning this fall, most 2-K seats will operate on a full-day and full-year schedule \u2014 a major step toward delivering truly universal child care and confronting New York City\u2019s affordability crisis. Representing a majority of the first 2,000 2-K seats available this fall \u2014 and setting the standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40150,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions\/40150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}