Mayor Eric Adams is Reverly $ 170 million in proposals for the already blocked from the Department of Education, which announces on Wednesday that will expand early childhood education programs throughout the city.
The $ 167 million, which were left out of the Adams Preliminary Budget Plan for fiscal year 2026, will be used to expand access to the free program of the city program for 3-year-old children, called 3-K and the special education of Universal Pre-K.
“To really make New York City the best place to raise a family, we know that we must invest in the future of our children, and today, we are making bold investments in early childhood education, to ensure that our studies have tools that are not tools that the tools have to have to have the tools have the tools of Have’s Hool Hool Hools Haves’s Hools Haves Haves Haves Hools.
Hizzer made the announcement of the Chancellor of the schools throughout Deide Melissa Aviles-Ramos and former mayor Bill de Blasio, whose signature platform was expanding Universal Pre-K and 3-K for working class families.
Later with Dana Bash of CNN, Adams said the funds would be part of an annual commitment.
“We are going to make it a permanent part of the government,” he said about “internal policy.”
The cash infusion occurs after Adams said last week that he would be disbursing to hire 3,700 new teachers next year to comply with the new mandate of the state class size law.
His preliminary budget, published in January, already assigned the whopping $ 41.2 billion for the DOE, a third of the budget of the entire city. The Adams final budget plan is expected in June.
But the members of the City Council had been asking Adams to restore even funds for early childhood programs, with the melody of another $ 30 million, in their own budget proposal this month.
“I am slippery, the mayor is restoring the cuts he made. If I take $ 100 of you, I cannot tell people that I gave $ 100, just returning the $ 100”, Finance Committee of the Council.
President Justin Brannan said Wednesday.
The speaker of the Adraienne Adams council, who also postulates for mayor, and the president of Education, Rita Joseph, also issued a joint statement with Brannan later on Wednesday that poured cold water in the adams celebration announcement.
“Access to a strong education system in early childhood is essential for middle -class and middle class families to remain in our city and raise their children here,” said the statement. “While it is positive that Mayor Adams returns and is based on money with the hero of his budget for which he fought the Council, is still reduced to dozens of millions of dollars of our son.”
The tension underlines a long -standing clash between the Council and the City Council on Adams previously announcing the severe budget cuts, before annallying the cuts.
De Blasio, speaking in CNN surround Adams, said the financing announcement occurs when the administration of President Trump points to the resources of the State Education Department.
“What Mayor Adams is doing is equally more important given the backdrop of what is happening in Washington,” he told Bash.
But saving De Blasio’s only Legacy initiative was not enough to hook Adams a re -election support of his predecessor.
“It is still early in these elections here in New York City,” said De Blasio, sitting next to Adams, when he hit who backed away.
– Additional reports by Haley Brown and Craig McCarthy