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Chair Gutiérrez opens hearing on multilingual early childhood education

New York City Council · Sep 29, 2026 · starts 0:00:39 · 22 sec

Council Member Jennifer Gutiérrez welcomes attendees to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education hearing. She frames New York City as linguistically diverse and notes that 45% of young children in New York State are multilingual learners.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

Thank you, and good afternoon, everyone.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

I'm Councilmember Jennifer Gutierrez, Chair of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood Education, and welcome to today's hearing.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

Double special welcome to the incoming DC for our hearing today, supporting multi-language learners and early childhood education programs.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

New York City is widely recognized as the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

Jennifer Gutiérrez

Shout out to Queens.