{"id":15660,"date":"2026-07-28T10:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/?post_type=article&#038;p=15660"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:34:37","slug":"city-officials-launch-67-5m-expansion-for-preschool-special-education","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/advocatesforchildren.org\/ar\/articles\/city-officials-launch-67-5m-expansion-for-preschool-special-education\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials launch $67.5M expansion for preschool special education"},"template":"","class_list":["post-15660","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-afc-in-the-news","topic_tax-early-childhood","misc_topic-city-budget","misc_topic-special-education"],"acf":{"component_standard_hero":{"":null,"excerpt":"","short_description":"","button":{"":null,"link_type":"page","page":{"title":"Watch the full interview","url":"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/the-rush-hour\/2026\/07\/28\/city-officials-launch--67-5m-expansion-for-preschool-special-education","target":"_blank"},"file":null,"title":""},"image":15661,"disable_share_icons":false},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<strong>\u0646\u064a\u0648\u064a\u0648\u0631\u06431\u00a0<\/strong>| Earlier this month, city officials announced a $67 million investment for preschool special education.\r\n\r\nThis will open programs in every borough aimed at helping students with Individualized Education Plans, or IEPs. City officials said it will set up students for success from the beginning of their education.\r\n\r\nBetty Baez Melo, the director of the early childhood education project at Advocates for Children of New York, joined \"The Rush Hour\" on Tuesday to talk about how this funding will impact families in the city.","":null,"settings":""}}],"relationships":{"":null,"article_type":[83],"topics":[8],"misc_topics":[183,198]},"misc":{"search_results":{"":null,"excerpt":"","featured_image":15661}}},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>City officials launch $67.5M expansion for preschool special education - 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\/city-officials-launch-67-5m-expansion-for-preschool-special-education\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"ar_AR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City officials launch $67.5M expansion for preschool special education - 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