The Office of Talent and Workforce Development, or NYC Talent for short, announced the expansion of two apprenticeship programs — at CUNY and a special education school — to recruit and train early childhood teachers.
The effort is part of a growing pro-play movement emerging as the next phase of the ed-tech backlash that gripped classrooms across the country, and spurred cellphone bans and screen time limits.
The 2022 state class size law imposed new caps on the city’s classrooms of no more than 20 to 25 students per classroom, depending on their grade level.
Amid a reckoning on digital devices in the classroom, the New York City Council called for further reforms to reduce screen time in public schools during a hearing Tuesday.
While most of the debate around Mayor Mamdani’s education technology policy has so far focused on a one-year pause on student use of artificial intelligence until high school, the rules announced last week also restrict the use of…