Day care turnover, worth hundreds of millions, challenged
Daughtry center, after 44 years, to lose Slope site, 35 employees
A decades-old day care center in Brooklyn has accused the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) of tampering with scores on its Request for Proposal (RFP) to cut it out of the city’s new early childcare system, EarlyLearn NYC.
Parents and staff of the Alonzo Daughtry Day Care Center, in operation for 44 years, protested this past Tuesday outside ACS offices in Manhattan. A familiar Brooklyn figure, Reverend Herbert Daughtry and three others, including his daughter Dr. Karen S. Daughtry, director of the center, were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after they blocked the sidewalk in front of the ACS entrance.