Urge your state senator to support quality family child care

Urge your state senator to support quality family child care

The New York State Assembly did its part. Now it's time for the State Senate to act.

Click here to send an e-mail to your state senator, urging him or her to pass Senate Bill S.3895-A, legislation that simplifies the ratios of adults to children in family and group family child care settings without compromising the quality of care; expands the availability of quality child care for infants and before and after school care for school-age children; and saves the state millions of dollars.

market rate agreement

City agrees to long-overdue raise for child care providers

Eighteen months after voting overwhelmingly to join the UFT in October 2007, child care providers have completed successful market rate discussions with the city Administration for Children’s Services.
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United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten re Market Rate Agreement:

United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten re Market Rate Agreement:

“We are very pleased that the city Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has finally agreed to pay New York City’s home day care providers the market rate that providers in the rest of the state have earned since October of 2007. This is a hard-fought victory for the city’s 28,000 providers represented by the United Federation of Teachers.
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REMINDER: ENROLLMENT NOTICE/AUTHORIZATION OF PAYMENT

You should not provide care to any child without an official placement/enrollment notice or authorization of payment from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS). Regardless of what you are told by a case worker or parent, you will not receive payment without either an official placement/enrollment notice or authorization of payment. A waiting list notification letter is not equivalent to these documents and does not guarantee payment from ACS.

NYTimes story

New York Times: "City Nears Deadline to Raise Day Care Pay or Lose Subsidy”

With a deadline looming for New York City to agree to increase the pay of in-home daycare providers or face losing the state subsidy for the care of more than 100,000 poor children, city officials still had not agreed on Tuesday night to pay for the raises.
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Under Pressure from Union, ACS Pays Overdue Wages

Under Pressure from Union, ACS Pays Overdue Wages

Faced with the threat of a massive Dec. 12 protest by the United Federation of Teachers outside its headquarters in Lower Manhattan, the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) on Dec. 11 released $200,000 to pay 98 home-based child care providers who had not been paid since Nov. 9.
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UFT Daycare Providers Rally at Alhambra Ballroom

UFT Daycare Providers Rally at Alhambra Ballroom

It was cold outside on the evening of November 20, but inside Harlem’s historic Alhambra Ballroom the UFT daycare providers brought the heat. Led by Chapter Chair Tammie Miller, more than 800 providers and their allies assembled to demand that the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) pay them the state-mandated 2007 market rate which should have been implemented in October 2007.
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Ripped off

'Ripped-off' providers rally for new market rate

On a cold November evening, more than 800 New York City home-based child care providers turned up the heat in the historic Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem demanding an end to the city's delay in paying them the higher wage approved by the state more than a year ago.
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Providers Rally at ACS, Demand 2007 Market Rate

Providers Rally at ACS, Demand 2007 Market Rate

Two hundred fifty home child care providers rallied outside the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) on September 24 to demand that the city pay the increased market rate established by the state last October. The demonstration was led by Chapter Chair Tammie Miller and included rousing speeches from UFT Vice President Michael Mulgrew, City Councilman Bill DeBlasio and State Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat as well as from providers...
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