AGENCY TESTIMONY
Challenges in the current early childhood education system
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Deputy Chancellor Hawkins addresses the limitations and challenges faced by the current early childhood education system in New York City.
- The system needs to evolve to better meet current needs and remain adaptable for the future
- Challenges have become apparent through conversations with constituents and personal experiences of finding early care and education seats
- The current system has limitations that need to be addressed to improve services to communities
Simone Hawkins
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While we are making advances to improve services to our communities, it is important to recognize the limitations of our current system and the challenges we face.
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When I stepped into this role in August, it was clear that the system needed to evolve to better meet current needs and remained adaptable for the future.
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Your conversations with constituents as as well as some of your own personal experiences to find an early care and education seat have laid bare that reality.