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| DATE | 2026-03-17 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout - NYLXS] All Your Children are Ours
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post.com
Mamdani’s city-run preschool expansion will leave parents with no other
choice
Post Editorial Board
2–3 minutes
Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s drive to expand “free” (city-run,
taxpayer-funded) preschool programs is already squeezing private-sector
providers, suggesting this “transformation” is more about a government
takeover of the sector than anything else.
Consider the private Manhattan day care preparing to hike prices 20% to
cover higher costs for qualified workers, as city pre-K competitors push
up wages.
The Manhattan Schoolhouse tuition increase was announced just weeks
before the announcement of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s 2-K for All plan. Luiz
C. Ribeiro for NY Post
“The teachers who are working for DOE, their salaries are much higher,
so we are competing with them,” Manhattan Schoolhouse co-founder and CEO
Kamila Faruki told The Post.
Yes: Public school teachers are paid much more (starting salaries:
$68,900 vs. $50,000) than private-sector ones, plus with less quality
control.
Of course, the United Federation of Teachers insists these 2K
“instructors” get union wages and benefits; expect job protections like
the ones that make even abusive K-12 “educators” so hard to fire, too.
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This year’s $73 million 2-Care pilot, with just 2,000 seats across the
city, is only the start.
But costs for every stage run to more than $36,000 per kid — about
$13,000 more than the city average cost for private child care — with a
final budget now projected at $6 billion a year.
And that’ll likely wind up even higher, once the expansion pushes
private and nonprofit operators out of the preschool market entirely, so
that the city program has to care for even more tots.
Except for the very wealthy, parents who need day care will have to
accept whatever the city offers — or move away.
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