More Low-Level Arrests under de Blasio than Bloomberg
More Low-Level Arrests under de Blasio than Bloomberg

In the first seven months of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, the NYPD made more arrests for petty crimes than it did last year under former mayor Michael Bloomberg—and the racial breakdown of those arrests remains the same, according to numbers released yesterday by the Police Reform Organizing Project (PROP). From January through July of 2014, police made more than 137,000 arrests for misdemeanor offenses, 86 percent of which involved people of color, according to data obtained by PROP from the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services. Last year’s number during the same period was just above 136,000, with 87 percent involving racial minorities.

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Juvenile JusticeAbigail Kramer Comments
An Unequal Distribution of Child Care Vouchers

Each year, the city gives out thousands of vouchers to help low-income families pay for daycare and afterschool programs. In theory, these vouchers should be available to working families across the city. However, as of the beginning of 2014, nearly 50 percent of the city’s available low-income vouchers were used in just two Brooklyn neighborhoods—each home to politically powerful Orthodox Jewish communities, according to an analysis of data obtained from the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS).

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Childcare/Youth ServicesAbigail Kramer Comments
New Report – Big Dreams for New York City's Youngest Children: The future of early care and education

In October 2012, New York City launched EarlyLearnNYC, a plan that would upend its system for providing subsidized child care to working class and low-income families. The goal was to take the city’s sprawling assortment of child care programs—ranging from subsidized babysitting services to nationally accredited preschools—and blend them into a unified, holistic spectrum of early education services for children from 6 weeks through 4 years old.

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Child Welfare, Reports, Childcare/Youth Services, Families and PovertyAbigail KramerCenter for New York City Affairs, child care, children's services, city government, CNYCA, communities, community organizations, community schools, early care, early education, EarlyLearn NYC, government, local government, low-income families, new report, nonprofits, NYC pre-k, public education, public policy, recommendations, solutions, subsidized child careComment
Recommendations & Solutions – Big Dreams for New York’s Youngest Children: The future of early care and education

RECOMMENDATIONS AND SOLUTIONS By establishing full-day, universal pre-kindergarten for New York City’s 4-year-olds, Mayor Bill de Blasio has demonstrated a powerful commitment to early childhood education. His administration now has the opportunity to broaden that vision and strengthen the city’s subsidized programs for early care and education serving the city’s youngest residents, children aged 0 to 3.

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Child Welfare, Childcare/Youth Services, Families and PovertyAbigail KramerCenter for New York City Affairs, child care, children's services, city government, CNYCA, communities, community organizations, community schools, early care, early education, EarlyLearn NYC, government, local government, low-income families, new report, nonprofits, NYC pre-k, public education, public policy, recommendations, solutions, subsidized child careComment
Executive Summary & Findings - Big Dreams for New York's Youngest Children: The future of early care and education

In October 2012, New York City put a plan into action that would upend its system for providing subsidized child care to working class and low-income families. The Bloomberg administration set out to take the city’s large and unwieldy assortment of early care and education programs—ranging from subsidized babysitting services to nationally accredited preschools—and blend them into a unified, holistic system serving children aged 6 weeks to 4 years old. Officials intended for this new system to spur improvements in quality, giving children the kind of rich learning experiences that would set them on track for educational success for years to come.

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Child Welfare, Childcare/Youth Services, Families and PovertyAbigail KramerCenter for New York City Affairs, child care, children's services, city government, CNYCA, communities, community organizations, community schools, early care, early education, EarlyLearn NYC, executive summary, government, local government, low-income families, new report, nonprofits, NYC, pre-k, public education, public policy, subsidized child careComment
Panel - Big Dreams for New York's Youngest Children: The future of early care and education
Child Welfare, Childcare/Youth ServicesAbigail KramerBrooklyn Kindergarten Society, Center for New York City Affairs, child care, children's services, city government, CNYCA, communities, community organizations, community schools, Cypress Hills Child Care Corporation, early care, early education, EarlyLearn NYC, government, local government, low-income families, nonprofits, NYC, pre-k, public education, public policy, subsidized child care, United Neighborhood Houses Comments
Youth Justice, Police and NYC’s Neighborhoods
Child Welfare, Events, Juvenile Justice, Childcare/Youth ServicesAbigail KramerACS, advocacy, Alliance for Youth Justice and Safety, Center for New York City Affairs, Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions, city government, CNYCA, Community Connections for Youth, community organizations, Correctional Association of New York, government, juvenile justice, Juvenile Justice Project, juvenile justice reform, local government, NYC, public policy, The New York Juvenile Justice Initiative, youth, youth justiceComment