After receiving grant funding for being in a child care desert, a rent hike is forcing a school to move.
Last month,announced nearly $17 million in grants would come to New York City to combat child care deserts, but the funding may be too little, too late for some, CBS2's Jessi Mitchell reported Monday.
"I think that if you were to overlay a map of poverty and deserts, you would see that there is a correlation there," said CHCF President and CEO Ramon Peguero,"and we all know that there is a correlation between lack of education and poverty. So for us, a desert means lack of opportunity.", one of the latest recipients of a state Child Care Stabilization Grant.
For Chevon Sherrod, in the desert of East Harlem, finding care she could trust for her daughter, Journey, was not easy, especially while recovering from a traumatic brain injury. "A third of our staff come from, live in East Harlem," said Union Settlement President and CEO Jennifer Geiling."Many more have kids and family members who have attended our programs. It's really a community-based organization."At the Learning Tree, named after Gordon Parks' classic children's book and home to one of his typewriters donated at the ribbon cutting, stacks of materials stand packed and prepped to move, making way for a new school tenant.
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