New York City aims for diversity, easier enrollment as education department moves to oversee programs starting in infancy [chalkbeat.org]

New York City is moving closer toward an overhaul of its early child care system that will put the education department in charge of some programs for children as young as six weeks old — a consequential shift that signals learning begins at birth.

Among the changes the education department is proposing: a universal enrollment system that could ease the burden on parents looking for child care, and an explicit focus on racial and economic integration from the earliest ages.

The moves are outlined in a white paper released Monday that serves as a roadmap for what families and providers might expect as responsibility for early child care programs transitions from the Administration for Children’s Services to the education system.

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