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"Every child who wants a seat will have access to one."
That's the promise Mayor Eric Adams has made to parents, even as his administration has injected turmoil and uncertainty into universal early childcare education programs like 3-K.
Last year, some parents who applied did not initially get offered a 3-K seat—a situation which has improved this year, with an offer going out to every parent. But on Tuesday, as parents nervously logged on in the afternoon to check where their toddlers would be going to 3-K, thousands found that their child's 3-K placement was not a real option that would work for their family.
Jeremy Cooper, a native New Yorker who lives on the Upper East Side, was one of those parents. He said he found out about his three-year-old's placement in a text from his wife Tuesday afternoon that said, "LOL."