{"id":1261,"date":"2016-01-14T14:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earlychildhoodnyc.org\/newswatch\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T19:13:09","slug":"good-news-for-early-childhood-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/good-news-for-early-childhood-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News for Early Childhood in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tGovernor Cuomo gave his State of the State address yesterday and also released his budget for 2017.&nbsp; I am pleased to report that there is an increase for QUALITYstarsNY, New York&rsquo;s quality rating and improvement system, which will bring its allocation to $5 million.&nbsp; Some of the new funds will be used to pilot a <em>Start with Stars<\/em> initiative, which will help programs address licensing violations that currently prevent them from joining QUALITYstarsNY.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAdditional good news for early childhood from the state budget includes an allocation of $22 million to expand free Pre-K for three-year-old children in high need communities throughout the state.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCongratulations to the QUALITYstarsNY team for all the wonderful work they do day after day! For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-outlines-2016-agenda-signature-proposals-ensuring-new-york-and-will-continue-be\">https:\/\/www.governor.ny.gov\/news\/governor-cuomo-outlines-2016-agenda-signature-proposals-ensuring-new-york-and-will-continue-be<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWarmly,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSherry M. Cleary\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tExecutive Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Cuomo gave his State of the State address yesterday and also released his budget for 2017.&nbsp; I am pleased [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"initiatives":[],"audiences":[],"organizations":[],"cbk":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1263,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"initiatives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/initiatives?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"audiences","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/audiences?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"organizations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/organizations?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"cbk","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cbk?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlychildhoodny.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}