In 1996, long-time educator Dr. Garey V. Ellis founded Inner Force Tots with the intention of bringing high-quality education programs to children in the inner city. Today, hundreds of students are enrolled in Inner Force Tots' comprehensive childcare, early education, and afterschool programs. The organization also hosts a registered EarlyLearn NYC center-based program.
Launched by Mayor Bloomberg in 2014, the EarlyLearn Initiative was started as an anti-poverty measure. The program made childcare and early education more accessible to lower-income families by extending free or low-cost programs to all eligible children who are too young for kindergarten. In 2014, nearly 40,000 children were enrolled in an EarlyLearn education center.
The initiative tackles poverty in the long and short-term. Also, the program's reliable and affordable childcare helps parents find and remain in work. Furthermore, there is mounting evidence that enrolling children from low-income families into high-quality early education programs can improve long-term educational attainment and reduce dropout rates, both of which are tied to economic prosperity.
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