REMARKS
Council Member Rita Joseph emphasizes commitment to early childhood education
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Council Member Rita Joseph concludes the session by emphasizing the City Council's strong commitment to early childhood education and its importance for New York City's future.
- The council is dedicated to stabilizing the early childhood education sector
- Investment in early learners is seen as crucial for the city's future
- Early childhood education is viewed as a way to break down barriers of economic disadvantage
- The council recognizes the research-proven benefits of investing in young children as early as possible
Rita Joseph
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This council on the record is committed to early childhood.
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We are committed from day one minute I walked in here, I was committed to making sure we we stabilize the sector.
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This is such an important sector and this is how you invest in the future of New York City is to invest in the earliest learners.
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And that that that's that's research proven, that if you invest in young people as early as possible, the future will be brighter even when we talk about other economic disadvantage that you talk about most of your your constituents come from NYCHA, you're removing that barrier.
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Right?
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That barrier bringing that barrier down by investing in early childhood.
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I'm gonna now turn the question over to council member Narcisse.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Thank you.
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Thank you chair.
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I'm listening to you and from the business aspect, If you don't get the money that use the You give the service, if you don't get the money, the staff cannot get paid and then we cannot continue whatever we're doing.
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That's the bottom line.
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The same thing for Department of That's If they don't receive money from the federal, from the state, from the city, they cannot function.
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So I don't know what make them think that you can function without the money, the contract that we agree on to give you.
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I'm gonna say from a business perspective, from being in the business world, I wanna say I am so sorry because you doing a work that it is changing the fabric of New York City.
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That's mean we address the inequity in education because most of the time the places that we're not able to function to educate our children happen to be in the community where you're serving.