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\u0634\u0648\u0643\u0628\u064a\u062a<\/strong> | Hundreds of children have been waiting for a preschool seat nearly two years after Mayor Eric Adams promised one for every child with a disability<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 as required by law. The ongoing lack of seats is likely to raise questions at a Thursday City Council oversight hearing on special education.<\/p>\r\n

Adams has taken some action on the issue, setting aside\u00a0funding for salary bumps<\/a>\u00a0to bring special education preschool teachers who work at community organizations to be more in line with starting salaries of their public school counterparts. The city also invested $55 million this school year to open new preschool seats for children with disabilities, opening 456 new slots in September, Education Department officials said, with roughly 280 more in the works.<\/p>\r\n

But 450 children are currently stranded at home without seats, department officials confirmed. Meanwhile, Adams\u2019 preliminary budget for next school year\u00a0did not renew the $55 million for new classrooms<\/a>, raising fresh concerns that the number of students sitting at home could creep back up.<\/p>\r\n

\u201cProviding these classes is not optional,\u201d Randi Levine, policy director at Advocates for Children, an organization that helps low-income families navigate the special education system, wrote in an email. \u201cGiven the City\u2019s legal obligation, the new preschool special education classes should have been among the first programs to get long-term funding.\u201d<\/p>","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[28],"misc_topics":[193,183,198]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":13107}}},"yoast_head":"\nHundreds of children with disabilities (still) wait for promised preschool seats in NYC - Advocates for Children of New York<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ar\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hundreds of children with disabilities (still) wait for promised preschool seats in NYC - Advocates for Children of New York\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ar\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Advocates for Children of New York\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AdvocatesforChildren\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-01-29T21:21:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-01-29-155638.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"568\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@AFCNewYork\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/\",\"name\":\"Hundreds of children with disabilities (still) wait for promised preschool seats in NYC - Advocates for Children of New York\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-01-29-155638.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-01-29T21:01:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-01-29T21:21:52+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"ar\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"ar\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/articles\/hundreds-of-children-with-disabilities-still-wait-for-promised-preschool-seats-in-nyc\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-01-29-155638.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-2025-01-29-155638.jpg\",\"width\":864,\"height\":568,\"caption\":\"Erica S. 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