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NEW YORK—What Diane Ravitch and Joel Klein agree on regarding education? Not much one may assume.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday that his administration has met its goal of enrolling more than 53,000 children in full-day prekindergarten classes.
NEW YORK—A week before schools open their doors, the city’s newly expanded prekindergarten classes are still not all booked, but close enough for Mayor Bill de Blasio to announce the preliminary enrollment number—50,407.
NEW YORK—Glenn Peters is an actor. But after 20 years in theater and 40th birthday at hand his agents stopped calling. Months without an audition, meditating over his future, a city-sponsored subway ad caught his attention: “Teach NYC Pre-K. New York’s future starts with you!”
NEW YORK—Mayor Bill de Blasio added another item to his Albany wish list Monday, announcing that next week he will call on the state Legislature to give him the power to raise the city’s minimum wage.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday asked state lawmakers in Albany to look not at the blank check for hundreds of millions that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has offered to fund city’s universal prekindergarten, but at the billions the state already owes the city in education funding.
