Child care funding is one of the many issues still on the negotiation table after Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers failed to hit their April 1 budget deadline.
Legislators raised the alarm over a funding fight between City Hall and Hochul’s office that could jeopardize a voucher program used by tens of thousands of poor families in the five boroughs.
“We have an immediate concern now. New York City has come to us and said that they have a shortfall of a state-funded ‘CCAP’ program, which has become a shortfall because we’re growing!” State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, a Queens Democrat, said during a Wednesday rally in Albany…