#NYC hopes to provide daycare for 100K families to help with remote learning

City Hall hopes to provide daycare for 100,000 families by the start of next school year to help parents grapple with remote learning, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

The Department of Education will stagger classes to lower daily building populations and enable social distancing due to the coronavirus crisis.

That approach will have kids alternate between distance learning at home and in-person education.

“But so many parents have also said that they can’t make it work if they don’t get more child care,” de Blasio said.

Hizzoner said the city aims to provide that service to 100,000 families by the beginning of the academic year in September and will gradually add to that figure.

“We’re going to find a way to do this and hopefully much more,” de Blasio said.

The city teachers union has pressed City Hall to address the remote learning dilemma and said reopening without a tenable child care plan in place would lead to severe disruptions.

The city is securing both public and private spaces to accommodate kids and will contract with additional service providers to help care for them, de Blasio said.

City parents — especially those who don’t enjoy the option of working from home — argue that they won’t be able to perform their jobs under a staggered school schedule.

De Blasio stressed Thursday that 75 percent of respondents to a DOE poll supported the reopening of schools in September.