New York Mayor Spells Out His Pre-K Specifics Details on Proposal to Educate More Than 50,000 City Children

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to expand free, full-day prekindergarten with a tax on the rich would reach 53,000 students by September–more than 70% of the children who need it, according to an administration report to be released Monday.

Prekindergarten then would become available to all 73,000 students who need it by the 2015-16 school year, the report said, a rapid expansion of classrooms, staff and curriculum that would test the de Blasio administration’s ability to follow through on its ambitions.

By
Michael Howard Saul

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