Parents Protest Planned Closing of Daycare Centers
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
New York, NY –
Dozens of parents and child-care workers are protesting the city's closing of 15 subsidized daycare centers. The group marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to City Hall Park Wednesday, with many children in tow.
Jacquelyn Sarpong says her four-year-old daughter goes to a daycare center in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and she doesn't know what she'll do if the center closes.
"It actually allows me to go to school, go to work. I pay $20 a month and I am only working part-time and if they cut them what am I going to do now?" she says.
Laura Postiglione with the city's Administration for Children's Services says the centers are being shut down because the city can't afford the leases. But she says children will be placed at other centers: "We do understand that parents are concerned, but all of our centers and providers are letting our parents know that we're going to make sure that each child has daycare."
The 15 centers are expected to close in July.
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