EXCERPT FROM: RochesterHomePage.net
By Cierra Putman
ROCHESTER, NY - State funding for daycare subsidies is up from last year, but local day cares say many parent's aren't getting approved and others are getting dropped from the program.

EXCERPT FROM: THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ginia Bellafonte
Every fall, thousands of upper-middle-class parents here awake in night sweats, overcome by the anxiety of trying to get their children into costly and prestigious preschools.

EXCERPT FROM: 13WHAM.com
By Alexis Arnold
Rochester, N.Y. - The Flesch family budget is tight.
Their child care expense is not for one, but two kids, a four-year-old and a three-month-old.

EXCERPT FROM: WIVT/WBGH Newschannel34
By STAFF
According to a report released today by the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA), the cost of child care continues to increase while families struggle to afford quality care. Parents and the High Cost of Child Care: 2011 Update provides results from a survey of Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) State Networks and local agencies, which asked for the average fees charged by child care programs in 2010.

EXCERPT FROM: NY1.com
By Michael Herzenberg
ASuba Ma-a has taught Universal Pre-Kindergarten in East Harlem for the last 14 years.

EXCERPT FROM: NY 1.com
By Cheryl Wills
The Duffield Children's Center in Downtown Brooklyn offers free and sliding-scale day care to low-income families. Parents say if the day care is not available, they would be forced to quit their jobs.

EXCERPT FROM: Gotham Schools
By Chris Arp
The Mabel Barrett Fitzgerald Day Care Center sits within the Amsterdam Houses public housing complex, recently the site of a sweeping drug bust. A few blocks away, however, glitzy Lincoln Center is flanked by some of the most expensive apartments in Manhattan.

EXCERPT FROM: New York Daily News
By Alex KATZ
With the budget deadline looming, even the city’s tiniest tots are making a last ditch effort to plead their case before the clock runs out.

EXCERPT FROM: Gotham Gazette
By Alshawn Rushing
Desiree Sadler, a beautician, planned to send her twin boys to Leggett Memorial Day Care Center in September. But then she received a letter saying she will lose that option. She has been writing to the Administration for Children's Services ever since.

EXCERPT FROM: NY1.com
By NY1 News
Thousands rallied outside of City Hall Wednesday in support of child care for working families.