纽约市计划在看到家长需求强劲后，扩大其针对两岁儿童的新项目。
New York City is planning to expand its new program for two-year-olds, after seeing strong demand from parents.
全日制项目名为2-K，今年在全市五个学区启动，提供2000个名额，超过5700个家庭申请了名额。
The full-day program, called 2-K, launched this year with 2,000 seats in five school districts around the city, and more than 5,700 families applied for a spot.
根据周一发布的声明，在州政府的支持下，市长佐兰·曼达尼和州长凯西·霍楚尔宣布，他们将在2027年秋季再增设10000个名额。
Now, with backing from the state, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul announced they will add another 10,000 seats in fall 2027, according to a statement on Monday.
曼达尼在声明中表示：“我们将把2-K项目推广到全市各区，让纽约市对劳动人民更具可负担性。”
“We’re bringing 2-K to every borough and making New York City more affordable for working people,” Mamdani said in the statement.
免费普惠托儿服务一直是曼达尼和霍楚尔的重要承诺，但成本高昂。一项最近的研究估计，将纽约市针对三岁儿童和学前班的项目扩展为全年全日制运行，每年成本约为7.35亿美元。
Free universal childcare has been a key promise from both Mamdani and Hochul, but costs are high. A recent study estimated that expanding the New York City programs for three-year-olds and pre-kindergarten grades to run for full days year-round would cost about $735 million a year.
曼达尼估计，他针对六周至五岁儿童的普惠托儿项目在全面实施后，每年成本将达到60亿至70亿美元。
Mamdani has estimated that his universal childcare program for children age six weeks to five years would cost $6 billion to $7 billion a year when fully implemented.
今年早些时候，霍楚尔承诺在两年内投入12亿美元，以支持纽约市的早期托儿和教育项目。州政府今年投入7300万美元启动该市的2-K项目，预计明年该项资金将增加到4.25亿美元。
Earlier this year, Hochul committed $1.2 billion over two years to support New York City’s early childcare and education programs. The state invested $73 million this year to launch the city’s 2-K program, and that funding was expected to increase to $425 million next year.
根据声明，2027年秋季新增的2-K名额将遍布全市各区，使该项目覆盖该市32个学区中的17个。随着扩展，布朗克斯区的所有学区以及史泰登岛全境也将拥有该项目。
The new 2-K seats in fall 2027 will be added in every borough, bringing the program to 17 of the city’s 32 school districts, according to the statement. With the expansion, every Bronx school district and all of Staten Island will also have the program.
在曼哈顿，新增名额将覆盖两个学区，范围从兰德尔岛和东哈莱姆延伸至西侧，包括莫尼赛德高地和汉密尔顿高地。布鲁克林区的六个学区和皇后区的三个学区也将获得该项目。
In Manhattan, new seats will be added to two school districts spanning from Randall’s Island and East Harlem to the west side including Morningside Heights and Hamilton Heights. Six Brooklyn school districts and three in Queens will get the program as well.
根据市长办公室儿童保育和早期儿童教育办公室执行主任Emmy Liss的说法，2-K项目通常每天运行10小时，每年运行260天。
The 2-K programs typically runs for 10 hours a day, 260 days a year, according to Emmy Liss, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education.
“我们在近年来看到令人担忧的趋势：有六岁以下儿童的家庭离开纽约市的可能性是其他家庭的两倍，他们常常指出，托儿费用的高昂是他们离开的主要原因，”她说。“像2-K这样的项目将使家庭更有可能留在纽约市。”
“We’ve seen concerning trends in recent years where families with children under six are twice as likely to leave New York City as other households, and they often cite that the cost of childcare is what’s driving them out,” she said. “Programs like 2-K will make it more possible for families to stay in New York City.”