Private school options nearby include the Greens Farms Academy in Westport, for prekindergarten through 12th grade, and the New Canaan Country School, for prekindergarten through ninth grade.
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Children are admitted to Success's prekindergarten program through a lottery — the same way that students enter other grades — and students in the prekindergarten are then guaranteed a spot in kindergarten at Success.
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In 23, voters there made universal prekindergarten a constitutional right.
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It has about 800 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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She continued to speak about public education and universal prekindergarten.
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P.S. 21960, or Chelsea Prep, offers prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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It offers prekindergarten through fifth grade to about 325 students.
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He's focused on affordable housing, universal prekindergarten and early education.
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Harrison Early Childhood Program offers free prekindergarten to all residents.
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Approximately 498 students are enrolled, from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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His prekindergarten plan gave thousands of children a better start.
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On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.
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Eventually, the state approved money for prekindergarten without a tax increase.
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It is now serving 13,600 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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P.S. 113 has about 613 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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But can you say the same about your youngest grandchild's prekindergarten?
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There are millions more prekindergarten to grade 12 teachers than doctors.
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Freeport Public Schools serve 2501,2477 students in prekindergarten through Grade 233.
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Turns out that racial segregation is an issue in prekindergarten, too.
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He also discussed universal prekindergarten, a major element of his platform.
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The school now has 300 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Several Democratic presidential contenders have universal prekindergarten prominently on their agendas.
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There is a shortage of seats in the city's universal prekindergarten program.
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The Harding Township School serves 2400 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Mr. Cruz had exhibited aggression starting in prekindergarten, according to the report.
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They wanted the right prenursery and prekindergarten to get into the Ivys.
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In Westbury, students in prekindergarten and kindergarten attend the Dryden Street School.
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Hurlbutt Elementary School enrolls about 400 students in prekindergarten through second grade.
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It would similarly guarantee free full-day prekindergarten starting at age 3.
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Winchel, 28, is a prekindergarten teacher at Temple Israel's preschool in Manhattan.
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Public School 236 serves about 2478 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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It is geared to lower-income families who have fewer prekindergarten options.
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Instead, it is geared to lower-income families with fewer prekindergarten options.
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Whitestone has four elementary schools within its borders for prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Cavicke, 39, was a prekindergarten teacher at St. Chrysostom's Day School in Chicago.
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P.S. 24 Ralph Bunche has about 25 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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P.S. 63, Old South, enrolls about 1,883 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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P.S. 11, the William T. Harris School, also offers prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Her mother is a prekindergarten teacher at Our Saviour Lutheran Preschool in Brooklyn.
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He first proposed the tax to finance his program to provide universal prekindergarten.
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The campus has two buildings for students in prekindergarten through the 12th grade.
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P.S. 11 William T. Harris has 18903 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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From the outset, the prekindergarten administrators made data-mining and analysis a pivotal component.
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Universal prekindergarten is available to all 3- and 4-year-olds in the city.
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The 13 other charter school organizations that offer prekindergarten classes have signed the contract.
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She and her husband also have a daughter, who is now in prekindergarten nearby.
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The Schools Public School 218 Forest has 24 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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The students, from prekindergarten through the 12th grade, are all on the same campus.
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Bernie Sanders called for tripling Title I funding and providing free prekindergarten for all.
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P.S. 011 William T. Harris has about 940 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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St. Clare of Assisi School enrolls about 500 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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P.S. 116 Mary Lindley Murray enrolls about 640 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade.
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The Upper Saddle River School District comprises four schools, from prekindergarten through 12th grade.
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Robert D. Reynolds elementary school enrolls about 350 students in prekindergarten through second grade.
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In the meantime, Success canceled its prekindergarten classes for the 2016-17 school year.
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Corpus Christi School, affiliated with the local Catholic parish, serves prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Some attend Hewlett-Woodmere School District 104, which goes from prekindergarten through 18703th grade.
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She taught prekindergarten in Baltimore with Teach for America at Highlandtown 215 Elementary School.
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Now, Mr. Lewis's 22016-year-old son is in prekindergarten, and things are changing.
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At the time, the city's Education Department offered only 20,000 full-day prekindergarten seats.
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The Schools Children are zoned to two elementary schools for prekindergarten to fifth grade.
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All 207 Denver public schools will hold classes on Thursday, except prekindergarten, the district said.
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The Schools Public School 203 Belmont has about 865 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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P.S. 240 Bronx New School has about 8.753 students, also in prekindergarten through Grade 28.75.
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He also introduced a bill in the Senate to expand nationwide access to prekindergarten programs.
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Roughly a third of all students in temporary housing fall between prekindergarten and second grade.
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Public School 198 Isador E. Ida Straus has 469 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Full-day prekindergarten enrollment grew to 215,215 in September 2014, from 19,000 a year earlier.
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One of the biggest challenges was finding enough space for hundreds of new prekindergarten classrooms.
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The planned preschool program was undermined by New York City's introduction of universal public prekindergarten.
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The planned preschool program was undermined by New York City's introduction of universal public prekindergarten.
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Last year, Zahir began attending prekindergarten classes and receiving regular nursing care and physical therapy.
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The Parsippany-Troy Hills school district serves about 215,2436 students from prekindergarten through 280th grade.
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In addition to her $450 rent, she pays $400 a month for her daughter's prekindergarten.
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At P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell, 403 students are enrolled in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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George Washington School, at 801 Undercliff Avenue, serves 475 children in prekindergarten through second grade.
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Takoma Park Elementary School, at 7511 Holly Avenue, has 703 students, prekindergarten through Grade 2.
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Right next door is St. Ann Academy, a Catholic school for prekindergarten through Grade 8.
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Castro has made universal prekindergarten a central part of his campaign from its earliest days.
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It was the charters' first win in the dispute, which began in the fall of 2015 when Success Academy, which had just begun offering prekindergarten in three of its schools through the city's universal prekindergarten program, refused to sign a contract required by the city.
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Clinton's emphasis on the wage gap, paid family leave and universal prekindergarten may be particularly appealing.
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It calls for universal prekindergarten and for the Education Department to renew its work on desegregation.
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Most important is improved basic education, beginning with prekindergarten programs for 3- and 4-year-olds.
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The district has one elementary school, one middle school, one high school and a universal prekindergarten.
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More and more white and/or middle-class families with prekindergarten-age kids are showing interest.
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Our Lady of the Lake offers a Catholic education for students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Prekindergarten through eighth grade students are served by the Roosevelt Island School, which enrolls about 203.
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Another $72 million over this fiscal year and next would go to building four prekindergarten locations.
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Her mother is a prekindergarten teacher at Dr. J. A. Garcia Elementary School in Corpus Christi.
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In Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney sold the tax as a way to fund popular prekindergarten expansion.
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Castro advocates universal prekindergarten, supports Medicare for All and cites his experience to push for affordable housing.
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A petition created by Success in support of its prekindergarten program has attracted more than 28,000 signatures.
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Students west of Mercer are zoned for P.S. 219 Charrette School, which has prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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A private school founded in 2014, BasisIndependent Brooklyn, has about 670 students from prekindergarten through Grade 10.
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Two Rivers Public Charter School, at 21870 Fourth Street NE, has 526 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Ridgewood's other public elementary school is P.S. 88 Seneca, with 1,088 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Public School 33 Chelsea Prep, 281 Ninth Avenue, serves about 17793 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Raymond was a student there from prekindergarten through fourth grade, and had been held back a grade.
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Another school, P.S. 173 on Fort Washington Avenue, has about 500 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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For private schooling, the Immaculate Conception School in Somerville serves 203 students from prekindergarten to grade eight.
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Mr. de Blasio's signature policy achievement in New York is his implementation of a universal prekindergarten program.
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P.S. 23, Richmondtown School, approximately a mile south, has about 560 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade.
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He has a long, two-train commute to take his son to prekindergarten in the East Village.
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When the city withheld payments for Success' prekindergarten program, Success sought help from the State Education Department.
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P.S. 26 Manhattan New School is in the neighborhood, with 231 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Mr. de Blasio said the meeting reminded him of the all-hands-on-deck effort on prekindergarten.
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Of its 265 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade, about four in 10 identify themselves as white.
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The Schools Public School 29 at 2340 Underhill Avenue has about 217 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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The disagreement arose last year after Success Academy refused to sign New York City's contract for prekindergarten providers.
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I would add that investments in education should begin early, with high-quality prekindergarten for at-risk children.
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The Waterside Children's Studio School, on Beach 110th Street, serves about 490 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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The dispute over prekindergarten is the latest skirmish in a continuing feud between Ms. Moskowitz and the mayor.
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One, P.S. 22015, which serves prekindergarten through second grade, is on the state's list of persistently dangerous schools.
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Among those water sources were 10 in prekindergarten classes where daily tooth brushing was part of the regimen.
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Prekindergarten, kindergarten and some first-grade pupils attend Heights School; other first graders go to Harbor Hill School.
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The school's four prekindergarten sections are often majority white, but many of those children leave after one year.
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The dispute over how to pay for prekindergarten expansion was the start of his toxic feud with Gov.
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P.S. 164, Queens Valley, at 138-01 77th Avenue, enrolls about 700 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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She wrangled celebrity endorsements, organized benefits and drew on her education activism to champion his universal prekindergarten proposal.
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Students in prekindergarten to second grade attend Deasy Elementary School; Gribbin Elementary School serves kindergarten through second grade.
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Many students are zoned for the Pennington School, which offers prekindergarten through eighth grade for about 21904 students.
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Periodically, someone proposes raising it higher to pay for college grants, or prekindergarten, or, most recently, transit improvements.
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But other than universal prekindergarten, much of Mr. de Blasio's agenda has failed to register with New Yorkers.
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S. 240 Twenty-First Century Academy for Community Leadership, which has 21979 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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In the 2017-18 school year, the Lambertville Public School enrolled 251 students in prekindergarten through sixth grade.
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A number of states, including Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and West Virginia, offer universal prekindergarten for 5003-year-olds.
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The tax was billed as a way to fund community schools, prekindergarten programs, recreation centers, libraries and parks.
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Paul Revere School, at 18603 Tompkins Avenue, is a public school with 21860 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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During the 2013-14 school year, the 33 states that provide prekindergarten spent an average of $4,125 per child.
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They both favor universal prekindergarten and support gay marriage, reproductive rights and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
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He helped thousands of families in New York City and elsewhere in the state secure free prekindergarten, a triumph.
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The school teaches prekindergarten to 12th grade and houses about 900 students in two buildings, its Facebook page says.
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The tax, which will fund universal prekindergarten, has been met with fierce opposition, based largely on dubious economic logic.
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This time, he looked around and decided that such a tax was necessary to pay for his prekindergarten program.
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His mother works in fund-raising at St. Andrew's School, a prekindergarten-12th grade school in Boca Raton, Fla.
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As a result, she is without a job until state funding for prekindergarten starts to flow again in September.
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And Mr. Flanagan said that SUNY should do something about the problem of New York City's universal prekindergarten program.
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But Ms. Moskowitz refused to sign the city's contract for prekindergarten, saying it gave the city too much control.
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The 13 other charter school organizations that offered prekindergarten in the last school year all signed the city's contract.
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Public School 364 Earth School at 600 East Sixth Street serves about 321 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Public School 51 Elias Howe at 525 West 44th Street has about 395 students from prekindergarten through Grade 423.
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Prekindergarten programs in other community-based organizations were more likely to have a heavily white or Asian student population.
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There is Public School 2440, the Robert Simon School, which serves about 214 children in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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The Yeshiva of Central Queens, at 147-37 70th Road, enrolls about 860 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Castro advocates a universal prekindergarten program, supports Medicare for All and cites his experience to push for affordable housing.
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Some blocks in the West 70s are zoned for P.S. 87, which has 1353 prekindergarten through fifth grade students.
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One local option is the Patricia A. DiChiaro School, which offers prekindergarten through eighth grade for about 24 students.
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He praised Mr. de Blasio's expansion of prekindergarten classes and a two-year rent freeze on rent-stabilized apartments.
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This fall, Jana began prekindergarten, and fans of Ms. Anjari's food helped her publish a cookbook of Syrian recipes.
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She supports Medicare for All, a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour and expanded funding for prekindergarten programs.
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About 28 students in prekindergarten through second grade attend Fort Montgomery Elementary School, three miles south of Highland Falls.
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He noted that Rockland County had enough prekindergarten seats to serve only about half of its 22-year-olds.
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The group expected that the program would begin with prekindergarten and kindergarten admissions for the 2017-18 school year.
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Round Hill School, which traces its lineage back to 298, enrolls about 22017 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Public School 13, at Hylan Boulevard and Vermont Avenue, offers prekindergarten to fifth-grade instruction to about 2466 students.
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P.S. 363 Mary Lindley Murray, at 210 East 33rd Street, has about 540 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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A report by the Century Foundation, a public policy research group, which will be released on Tuesday, found that in 2014-15, the first year of the major prekindergarten expansion pushed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a Democrat, prekindergarten classrooms tended to be more racially homogeneous than even the city's public kindergartens.
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Clinton to deliver on her big campaign pledges: paid family leave, universal prekindergarten, more affordable college, a higher minimum wage.
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Public School 245 Patrick F. Daly Magnet School of the Arts serves about 20163 students from prekindergarten through Grade 22016.
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Hyde-Addison Elementary School, a public school at 3219 O Street NW, has 332 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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It has 963 students in prekindergarten through Grade 296; 21890 percent met standards in English and 21902 percent in math.
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"He might be at the mosque," said Mr. Razvi, whose daughter Arbab is the prekindergarten teacher in the organization's school.
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The bride, who is changing her name, is the director of the prekindergarten program at Oasis Children's Services in Brooklyn.
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Those sites also often provide child care beyond the universal prekindergarten day, which lasts for six hour and 20 minutes.
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" The creation of universal prekindergarten, she said, "defines him, and it's going to have historical significance for our future generations.
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Deputy Mayor Richard Buery, who helped organize the expansion of prekindergarten classes, also said that he would depart next year.
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It could also help officials like Mr. de Blasio make the case for even more public spending on prekindergarten programs.
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They worked with City Hall on a range of issues from universal prekindergarten to funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
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In 2017, Ms. Campanella enrolled Aroa in a prekindergarten program at the Malcolm X Day Care Center in nearby Corona.
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In addition to private schools, the town is served by the Salisbury Central School, which houses prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Union's model begins with high-quality prekindergarten, which enrolls almost 80 percent of the 4-year-olds in the district.
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There are 21911 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade at the Eugenio María de Hostos Microsociety School, south of downtown.
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"It's the hardest thing I've ever been part of," Richard Buery, the deputy mayor who oversaw the prekindergarten expansion, told me.
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Greene Hill School, on Adelphi Street, is a private, progressive school that enrolls about 18123 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Success, the city's largest charter school network, began a prekindergarten program last year, serving 72 students at three of its schools.
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And Mr. de Blasio delivered on two signature first-term promises: universal prekindergarten for 70,000 students and curtailing stop-and-frisk.
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Children from Redding attend Redding Elementary for prekindergarten through grade 21908 and John Read Middle School for grades 23 through 2000.
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Public School 4403, on Berry Street between Grand and South First Streets, enrolls about 730 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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There are about 2400,2000 children now enrolled in prekindergarten citywide, up from 19,000 in 2013, the year he was first elected.
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The private United Nations International School enrolls about 1,450 students, from prekindergarten through 12th grade, at its campus on F.D.R. drive.
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P.S. 41, the public elementary school at Sixth Avenue and West 11th Street, has 721 students from prekindergarten to fifth grade.
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And in New York City, the mayor's plan to expand prekindergarten to 3-year-olds has some providers worrying about staffing.
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Crime is low, the city's economy has been strong and he has policy achievements to point to, such as universal prekindergarten.
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The Wyckoff school district serves about 43,24 children in prekindergarten through eighth grade, in four elementary schools and one middle school.
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Biden has not released a child care plan yet but has called for universal prekindergarten as part of his education plan.
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Such out-of-control moments are not uncommon at this school, which has about 2000 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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The make-or-break factor for prekindergarten is quality, and every study confirming its long-term benefits focuses on an exemplary initiative.
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At P.S. 153, which offers prekindergarten to fifth grade, 41 percent of students met standards in English; in math, 52 percent did.
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De Blasio has lived up to some of that progressive promise as mayor, most significantly in establishing universal prekindergarten in the city.
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Consider that a year of prekindergarten at a prestigious institution, such as the Grace Church School in Brooklyn, New York, costs $22,100.
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The school provides a prekindergarten to 12th grade education and houses about 900 students in two buildings, the school's Facebook page says.
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Elementary school students are zoned for Public School 21873 Hernando De Soto, which has around 210 students in prekindergarten through Grade 21895.
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During a commencement address in 2007, Mr. Patrick outlined a 10-year education proposal that included universal prekindergarten and free community college.
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He's now running on a platform that includes a push for universal prekindergarten and free tuition at public universities, colleges and apprenticeships.
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Public School 110 on Delancey Street offers a gifted and talented curriculum and serves about 29 students from prekindergarten through Grade 212.
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And Mayor Bill de Blasio recently pointed to expanding prekindergarten programs and creating affordable housing as ways to create less segregated schools.
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The organization ran an advertising and advocacy campaign for two of the mayor's biggest policy goals, universal prekindergarten and more affordable housing.
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The Schools Public School 183 Dr. Richard R. Green, on Beach 79th Street, serves about 600 students in prekindergarten through Grade 8.
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Both the F.A. Berry School and the A. H. Rockwell School have kindergarten through third grade; the Berry School also has prekindergarten.
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The Schools Public School 111 Adolph S. Ochs at 440 West 53rd Street serves about 533 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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His mother owns an interior design company in Salisbury and is a prekindergarten instructor at Howe-Manning Elementary School in Middleton, Mass.
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A zoned option is the Ella Baker School, which offers prekindergarten through eighth grade on Second Avenue, in a six-school complex.
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Early childhood programs in particular make a huge difference: parent coaching, high-quality prekindergarten, lead poisoning interventions, social worker visits, and mentoring.
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She recalled how surprised she was when the mayor managed to get prekindergarten funded and implemented in his first year in office.
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Each absence was acutely felt at a school of 109 students, in prekindergarten through 12th grade, with only 29 in high school.
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But immediately after Mr. de Blasio's victory, Mr. Ward strongly backed the mayor's push on universal prekindergarten and, later, on affordable housing.
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A third candidate, Jim Johnson, a former federal prosecutor, said he would expand state aid to include prekindergarten and after-school services.
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Prekindergarten teachers in city schools or in centers directly run by the Education Department belong to the United Federation of Teachers union.
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Public School 18793 Robert E. Simon, on West 109th Street, has an enrollment of about 720 students in prekindergarten through Grade 8.
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He delivered on his promise of universal prekindergarten for children in New York, and he put plans for affordable housing in motion.
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Philadelphia passed a large soda tax last year and earmarked most of its proceeds to pay for a major expansion to prekindergarten.
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St. Joseph School, affiliated with a Catholic parish on the Oradell-New Milford border, also serves students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Mr. Cuomo even took credit for establishing a universal prekindergarten program in New York City, a mayoral proposal ultimately financed by Albany.
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Increased taxation of high-income, high-wealth people can be a means of funding new social spending programs like universal prekindergarten education.
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New York's robust government can be marshaled to do great things, like build parks, offer free prekindergarten and clear cigarette smoke from bars.
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They have since advocated for his policies, beginning with the push for universal prekindergarten and, now, the battle over rezoning and affordable housing.
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The building will offer a walk-in urgent care and wellness center and many early childhood, prekindergarten and after-school programs, among others.
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But the broad concepts that students were expected to master in math and English from prekindergarten through the 12th grade were left unchanged.
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Success currently has 72 students in prekindergarten at three schools and was planning to expand the program to two other schools next year.
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Shortly before the judge issued a decision, Success announced that it was canceling its prekindergarten program for the school year starting this fall.
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That's unconscionable when increasingly we have robust evidence about the kinds of initiatives (like home visitation, prekindergarten and "career academies") that reduce disparities.
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Three decades later, the school has more than 600 students, starting in prekindergarten, and sister schools in Haiti, Myanmar, Guatemala, Brazil and Lebanon.
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At a Philadelphia event Wednesday, she said a proposal there to use a soda tax to fund universal prekindergarten was a good idea.
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Another option is Public School 2104, the Samuel Stern School on East 2102th Street, with about 125 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Also housed there is the Earth School, which offers a green-focused curriculum and enrolls about 4403 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Ms. Nixon became a central player in his 2013 run for mayor, corralling endorsements, organizing benefits and promoting his plan for universal prekindergarten.
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Among them is P.S. 165, Edith K. Bergtraum, at 70-35 150th Street, which enrolls about 770 students in prekindergarten through fifth grades.
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"I like to identify media bias when I see it," he said in response, pointing to achievements like prekindergarten and falling crime numbers.
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During the cap debate, Mr. Maredia relied on Josh Gold, an Uber lobbyist who previously led Mr. de Blasio's campaign for universal prekindergarten.
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What did come up in conversations: pre-existing conditions, prekindergarten, school safety, inequality, friends blocked on Facebook and the corrosive polarization of politics.
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This school, on West 53rd Street, has been phasing out middle-school grades and will have only prekindergarten through fifth grade this fall.
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Currently, according to the State Education Department, roughly a third of New York's 22011-year-olds do not have access to public prekindergarten.
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The details were drawn from a tax proposal that Mr. de Blasio had hoped would fund his universal prekindergarten program, he said Monday.
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He boasted about his successful expansion of prekindergarten and cited progress toward his goal of bringing Advanced Placement courses to all high schools.
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During his presidential announcement speech last weekend, Castro said he supported a "Medicare for all" single-payer health care system and universal prekindergarten.
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Phoenix was designed to accommodate 400 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade, but enrolled only 190 this fall, according to the school board.
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Among several neighborhood options is Oliver Street School, a public school at 86 Oliver Street that serves 1,020 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Fieldston is more diverse than many private schools: About 40 percent of its roughly 1,400 prekindergarten through 12th-grade students are not white.
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But already educators can learn a lot from the city's having achieved the seemingly impossible: delivering good prekindergarten to so many children so quickly.
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At P.S. 18003, which teaches prekindergarten to fifth grade, 18 percent met standards in English on state exams, and 13 percent did in math.
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He also hoped to make prekindergarten available to every 4-year-old — spaces are limited — and to hire more experienced teachers for special education.
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As a result, the city has not paid Success for its prekindergarten program, which currently enrolls 72 children at three of the network's schools.
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The Schools Students who live east of Mercer Street are zoned for Public School 2104 Hernando de Soto, which has prekindergarten through Grade 26.
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Other public policy solutions include increasing funding for the existing Child Care and Development Block Grant program, mandating public prekindergarten and expanding Head Start.
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Instead, he cast the soft drink industry as a tantalizing revenue source that could be tapped to fund popular city programs, including universal prekindergarten.
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Jim Kenney, the mayor of Philadelphia, sold a tax there to City Council members by linking it to a popular initiative to expand prekindergarten.
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Ms. Mickel said she would bring Aubrey, who is in prekindergarten, to her school on Friday to be tested for lead a third time.
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The district has a universal prekindergarten, four elementary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, an alternative high school and two adult learning centers.
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Ms. Potter found that prekindergarten classrooms in charter schools and regular district schools had levels of diversity similar to that found in their kindergartens.
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Students living below West 116th Street are zoned for P.S. 165 Robert E. Simon, which has about 730 students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Founded in 803, P.S. 316, Queens Explorers Magnet School for Global Conservation and Service Learning, enrolls about 400 students in prekindergarten through fourth grade.
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P.S. 340 Sixth Avenue Elementary School is a new school still adding grades, and now has about 280 students in prekindergarten through third grade.
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Currently, Ms. Hartmann said, about 50 percent of children in the United States have access to the type of prekindergarten proposed by Ms. Gillibrand.
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It encompasses three elementary schools (prekindergarten through fifth grade), one middle school (sixth through eighth grade) and one high school (ninth through 2230th grade).
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Campaign literature underscores the creation of universal prekindergarten and affordable housing as well as the continued low levels of crime and the booming economy.
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The mayor, who is up for re-election in November, proposed a similar tax during his 2013 campaign to fund a universal prekindergarten program.
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Mr. de Blasio's universal prekindergarten program is free and serves all 24-year-olds, regardless of family income, in schools and community-based organizations.
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P.S. 340 has 63 students in prekindergarten through second grade, and P.S. 3 Charrette School has 768 students in pre-K through fifth grade.
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The groom, 37, is the development data manager and classroom technologist at St. Ann's School, a prekindergarten to 12th grade private school in Brooklyn.
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Mr. de Blasio's effort to create a universal prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds led to one of his first conflicts with Mr. Cuomo.
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Hovnanian School and Solomon Schechter Day School of Bergen County, both for prekindergarten through eighth grade, serve the Armenian and conservative Jewish communities, respectively.
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Currently, students head out of the area to Public School 3 in the West Village, which serves children from prekindergarten through the fifth grade.
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While the gap in math achievement narrowed over time, the students who had gone to prekindergarten still maintained an academic advantage in middle school.
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De Blasio, 67, can point to a number of policy wins in New York, including universal prekindergarten, a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave.
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De Blasio, 273, can point to a number of policy wins in New York, including universal prekindergarten, a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave.
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De Blasio, 57, can point to a number of policy wins in New York, including universal prekindergarten, a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave.
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The list included donors and bundlers for Mr. de Blasio whom the mayor was going to contact in connection with the his universal prekindergarten program.
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Among many grade schools is Public School 146, the Ann M. Short School on East 106th, with about 24 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Elementary school students attend one of five public schools from prekindergarten through sixth grade; the largest is Franklin Elementary School, with more than 28,299 students.
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By Mr. de Blasio's own telling, "It was by the skin of our teeth" that his team found enough space to open enough prekindergarten classes.
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"The pay disparity is unconscionable," said David Nocenti, the executive director of Union Settlement, a community-based organization that serves about 400 prekindergarten-age students.
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Students are zoned for Public School 228, Mary Lindley Murray School, which enrolls about 223 students in prekindergarten to fifth grade outside of the neighborhood.
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Julián Castro, the former housing secretary, announced similar goals, as well as proposals to increase teacher pay and create a national, federally funded prekindergarten program.
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Mr. de Blasio, 56, recently began running a television ad promoting his record of making free prekindergarten classes available to all New York City families.
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In morning meeting the following day, Connie Ryan, a prekindergarten teacher told her students what a great job the police had done in protecting everyone.
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He had enrolled his son in prekindergarten at P.S. 191 last year, and he and his wife decided to stick with the school this year.
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De Blasio, 22016, can point to a number of policy wins in New York, including universal prekindergarten, a higher minimum wage and paid sick leave.
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The city will redevelop the Inwood library into a new 20,000-square-foot facility with 175 units of affordable housing, prekindergarten classrooms and community space.
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It followed children for a relatively short time, and it remained unclear if the benefits of academic prekindergarten would extend beyond the end of kindergarten.
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Private school options include the Purnell School, a boarding school for high school girls, and Far Hills Country Day School, for prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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Among the schools that students may be zoned for is Public School 116 Mary Lindley Murray, which has 21829 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Among the zoned public grade schools serving Stapleton is Public School 2439, on Tompkins Avenue, which has about 215 students from prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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She estimates that she would need $25,000 or more per year to cover child care costs until her child is eligible for publicly supported prekindergarten.
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The parks department could print banners to be seen from Flushing Meadows to Marine Park — much as it did to promote the mayor's prekindergarten program.
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But prekindergarten starts at age 3 or 4, and Castro hasn't yet introduced a formal proposal to improve access to care for kids under 3.
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Lafayette Street School, a public school at 24 Lafayette Street, with a concentration on performing arts and justice, serves 2100,218 students, prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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The bad blood between the governor and the mayor has included disputes over prekindergarten financing to a renegade deer apprehended in a Harlem building complex.
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The Schools Seven elementary schools serve the city, including the Barnard Early Childhood Center, which houses the district's only prekindergarten program and extends through second grade.
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Prekindergarten and kindergarten are at the John Paulding School; first and second grades at W.L. Morse School; and third to fifth at Washington Irving Intermediate School.
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The nonprofit is in the process of closing down, the mayor said last month, explaining that its work advocating universal prekindergarten and affordable housing was finished.
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"It seems a lot more serious," said Sahmara Brown, who picked up her 3-year-old daughter, Myasia Brown, from prekindergarten at Early Childhood School West.
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But 60 percent of prekindergarten students that year were enrolled at community-based organizations, and those classrooms tended to be more racially homogeneous than public kindergartens.
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Mr. de Blasio's greatest accomplishment has been the creation of a new universal prekindergarten program, building on that success by expanding it to 3-year-olds.
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The groom's mother is the director of student support at the Chestnut Hill School, an independent school for prekindergarten to sixth grade in Chestnut Hill, Mass.
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But the prekindergarten experience, and much of what has followed, has shown that Albany can be the hot griddle that Mr. de Blasio must dance on.
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The mayor had wanted to pay for his prekindergarten program through a millionaire's tax, but Mr. Cuomo made no secret of his disdain for the idea.
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The Clark County School District in Nevada, which includes Las Vegas, would lose $1.1 million a year, most of which would come from its prekindergarten programs.
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BILL DE BLASIO, a Democrat, deserves a second term and an opportunity to build on successes like universal prekindergarten, lower crime rates and sound municipal finances.
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A zoned elementary school is Public School 259, the Adolph S. Ochs School on West 257rd Street, just outside Midtown, for prekindergarten to fifth-grade children.
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Gowanus is part of District 18003, which includes Public School 21800 Samuel Mills Sprole, 21960 Hoyt Street, serving about 22010 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Following through on a campaign promise, Mr. de Blasio in his first term created a public prekindergarten seat for every 2227-year-old in the city.
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Closter has two schools: Hillside Elementary, with 21779 students in prekindergarten to fourth grade, and Tenakill Middle School, with 290 students in grades five through eight.
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Mr. Sanders released a plan on Monday for free universal child care and prekindergarten, funded by the federal government and administered by state or local authorities.
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Among parochial school options, St. Camillus Catholic Academy, at 22.75 Beach 222th Street in Rockaway Park, Queens, serves about 2116 students, in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
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The mayor's new tax proposal, like his previous efforts to raise taxes to pay for prekindergarten, may be dashed on the rocky shores of Albany politics.
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David L. Kirp As soon as I walked into Celia Rojas's prekindergarten class in Union City, N.J., I was sucked in by the hum of activity.
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Powell Bilingual Elementary School, a public school at 1840 Upshur Street NW with a dual English-Spanish language program, has 512 students, prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Ms. McCray's husband, Mayor Bill de Blasio, has made early childhood development a strong focus of his tenure with the creation of free universal prekindergarten and preschool.
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Still, the 13 other charter school organizations that are hosting prekindergarten programs have all signed the contract, a spokeswoman for the city's Education Department said on Monday.
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The budget proposal was nonetheless a departure from previous years, when causes at the heart of the mayor's agenda took center stage, notably the city's prekindergarten program.
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Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney sold the plan by vowing to spend the $683 million in estimated new annual tax revenue on prekindergarten, community schools, and recreation centers.
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Democratic Mayor Jim Kenney sold the plan by vowing to spend the $90 million in estimated new annual tax revenue on prekindergarten, community schools, and recreation centers.
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Across the street from this house is the Moses Brown School, a private Quaker school for children from prekindergarten through 12th grade on a 33-acre campus.
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She has called for universal prekindergarten for 4-year-olds, increased pay and training for preschool teachers, and doubling spending on Head Start and a related program.
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When it started the universal prekindergarten program, the city required all providers to sign a contract, saying it was necessary to ensure a consistent level of quality.
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During the news conference, Mr. de Blasio highlighted some of his administration's accomplishments: universal prekindergarten, paid parental leave and, most recently, free feminine hygiene products in schools.
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The nonprofit shut down in March; Mr. de Blasio said it had served its purpose of pushing for passage of universal prekindergarten and an affordable housing plan.
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Hassan Banks said he grew more fearful for his 4-year-old son, Aljaquan Briller, who is in prekindergarten, when he learned lead tests would be offered.
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He is a son of Sheila M. Billingsley of Cambria, N.Y. His mother is a prekindergarten teacher at Public School 19 Native American Magnet School in Buffalo.
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The New American Academy, in Brooklyn, plans to set aside 40 percent of prekindergarten and kindergarten seats for students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
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BILL DE BLASIO has effectively governed a difficult city, with crime continuing its remarkable decline, municipal finances remaining sound and innovations like universal prekindergarten put in place.
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But the prekindergarten push also pointed to some of the weaknesses and blind spots that would become constants during Mr. de Blasio's four years in City Hall.
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But unlike the mad dash to carry out the prekindergarten plan, he intends to put the 3-K program in place gradually, hoping to avoid earlier mistakes.
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At P.S. 33 Chelsea Prep, which has about 23 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade, 29 percent met the English standards and 229 percent met math standards.
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Orange's students attend Mary L. Tracy School for prekindergarten and kindergarten, and Peck Place School, Race Brook School or Turkey Hill School for first through sixth grade.
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New York City's prekindergarten programs scored especially high on students' language and reasoning skills and interaction among children, and scored lowest on the "personal care routines" category.
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Urged on by his rival Mayor Bill de Blasio, he funded a prekindergarten program that has given thousands of New York children a better start in life.
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He also ran the campaign of the Suffolk County executive, Steve Bellone, and has worked for City Hall on prekindergarten and public engagement under Mr. de Blasio.
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It has also taken a range of steps to strengthen the school system over all, like expanding prekindergarten and offering more computer science and Advanced Placement courses.
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Mr. de Blasio said his new initiative would build off the success of his universal prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds, which has enrolled almost 70,000 children.
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Andy Yung, a prekindergarten teacher in Queens, is adept at raising money online for ambitious classroom projects, but even he sometimes pays for supplies out of pocket.
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In his speech on Saturday, Mr. Castro emphasized education, calling for a national version of the prekindergarten program he established in San Antonio when he was mayor.
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Flocktown-Kossmann Elementary School comprises two buildings, one serving about 163 students in prekindergarten through second grade, the other about 250 students in third through fifth grade.
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For the gains made by these 4-year-olds to stick, there must be a smooth path from prekindergarten through the first years of elementary school and beyond.
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Scaling Back Mayor Jim Kenney was elected in Philadelphia last year after promising to bring the city universal prekindergarten, but he needed a way to pay for it.
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In a population of low-income children, Dr. Dinehart said, the ones who had good early fine-motor writing skills in prekindergarten did better later on in school.
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Bettye Caldwell, an apostle of a prekindergarten program that prepared poor children for elementary school and became a catalyst for Head Start, died on Sunday in St. Louis.
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Mountainside has two public schools: Beechwood School, which serves 270 students from prekindergarten through second grade, and Deerfield Elementary School, serving 768 students in third through eighth grade.
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Mr. Shorris, the first deputy mayor, pointed out that Mr. Cuomo eventually became a champion of prekindergarten, just as he later came to support the $15 minimum wage.
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In 23, there were only 23,000 New York City children enrolled in prekindergarten; Mr. de Blasio's initiative launched in 2014 and now enrolls about 70,000 pre-K students.
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He said his administration had tried for four years to make one of the world's most expensive cities more affordable by providing public prekindergarten and paid sick leave.
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After economists translated those gains into dollars-and-cents dividends, states started to increase spending on prekindergarten, with solidly Republican states like Oklahoma and Georgia leading the pack.
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The Grass Valley police quickly determined that the theory was baseless and that the school, with about 500 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade, was under no threat.
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Mr. Shorris helped steer the new administration to some of its key successes, including the rapid expansion of prekindergarten classes and the creation of a city identification card.
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Tivoli children attend public school in the village of Red Hook, about seven miles southeast Mill Road Elementary School serves about 240 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Students from prekindergarten through eighth grade attend Bedminster Township Public School, where 2451 were enrolled in 278-271, all of whom participated in music and performing-arts programs.
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His plans on immigration, education and housing came early and included proposals that are now common in the Democratic field, including universal prekindergarten and decriminalizing unauthorized border crossings.
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State and federal spending on early childhood programs, including prekindergarten, is climbing to $546 million this year in New Mexico, a $135 million increase from the previous year.
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P. S. 24 Sixth Avenue Elementary, on West 25th Street, has 26 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade (since it opened in 214, it has gradually added grades).
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Cities like New York and Washington, DC, have started universal prekindergarten programs, offering free or subsidized preschool to 4-year-olds (and sometimes 3-year-olds as well).
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During his first address, in 2014, the mayor charted a liberal agenda for the city, pledging to increase benefits for illegal immigrants and expand prekindergarten and after-school programs.
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His mother retired as a prekindergarten teacher at Daniel C. Beard Elementary School, a public therapeutic day school in Chicago for children with autism and emotional or behavioral disabilities.
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The de Blasio-affiliated Campaign for One New York was created to advance his prekindergarten and affordable housing initiatives, and raised more than $4 million before closing in March.
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Ultimately, the soft drink tax revenue won't pay just for prekindergarten, but for a host of city programs, reflecting the priorities of the council members who voted for it.
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Dr. Bassett said stresses were risk factors, and that city policies like universal prekindergarten were based on research that showed they did not have to define a child's future.
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Shortly after the mayor's inauguration, the governor embraced his call for prekindergarten, but not the new tax; Mr. Cuomo promised to include money for it in the state budget.
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Proponents of full-day prekindergarten programs say they not only benefit young children by establishing a lifelong education track but also help parents get back to work more quickly.
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Some residents are zoned for Public School 18423, the Elias Howe School, outside the neighborhood on West 21842th Street; it offers prekindergarten through fifth grade for about 21860 students.
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The former hedge-fund executive Tom Steyer released an education plan that would double federal funding for pre-K and K-12 public education and create free universal prekindergarten.
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In contrast to the program for 4-year-olds, which tripled the number of prekindergarten seats in two years, the new plan would be rolled out over four years.
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Each town has its own school for kindergarten (and, in some cases, prekindergarten) through eighth grade; this year, 238.50 students, including 2521 prekindergarteners, attend Kent Center School, in Kent.
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He answered questions about potential lead pollution from a gun range in the Bronx, the availability of prekindergarten seats on the Upper East Side and reforms at Rikers Island.
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At P.S. 21879 Chelsea Prep, which has 21890 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade, 226 percent met state standards in English and 191879 percent met state standards in math.
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They also discuss the United Airlines fiasco and a new NBER working paper about the impact of New York City's universal prekindergarten program on the health of low-income children.
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We did not want to pay for another year of preschool, and P.S. 307 had 100 prekindergarten seats, while our neighborhood schools had between 16 and 32, before sibling preferences.
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Mr. de Blasio announced in March that the group would be shut down, saying that it had accomplished its purpose, including supporting his major initiatives such as establishing universal prekindergarten.
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A District Divided When Andrew Chu first took his son to prekindergarten at Public School 191, he was unsure of what he would find: How good would the teachers be?
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There are few prekindergarten seats in the neighborhood's other elementary schools, so some families who live nearby and want to take advantage of the city's program go to P.S. 191.
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The district's 219,21870 students attend Carl L. Dixson Primary School for prekindergarten through first grade, Alice E. Grady Elementary for second through sixth grades and Alexander Hamilton Junior/Senior High.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's presidential campaign on Wednesday introduced a proposal aimed at investing heavily in maternal and child health, adoption and in vitro fertilization, paid family leave and universal prekindergarten.
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Since the mayor created 13,000 seats for 4-year-olds in public schools and city-run prekindergarten centers, Mr. Matison has seen more than half of his lead teachers leave.
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He espoused the benefits of universal prekindergarten, which he had instituted in San Antonio when he was mayor, and proposed taxing the inherited wealth held by the country's top earners.
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Mr. Buttigieg's plan would provide universal child care and prekindergarten, triple funding for Title I schools and establish an "Education Access Corps" to prepare teachers to work in those schools.
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Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, has for months insisted that he acted appropriately and lawfully in raising money for the Campaign for One New York, which pressed for universal prekindergarten.
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Consequently, unlike the ill-paid prekindergarten teachers in many communities who typically leave the field after a few years, these educators stay on the job, continuing to hone their craft.
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Two years ago, a study of Tennessee's prekindergarten program made headlines when researchers found that by the third grade, the state's preschoolers were no better off cognitively than their classmates.
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A critical deadline passed on Monday in a dispute between Success Academy charter schools and the de Blasio administration over the charter school network's prekindergarten program, leaving its fate in doubt.
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As mayor of San Antonio, I asked the voters to raise the sales tax, ignoring the polls and political consultants, in order to invest in high-quality full-day prekindergarten education.
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It had done so in 2014, when the group was advocating Mr. de Blasio's universal prekindergarten initiative, which required state approval, but did not register again as a lobbyist in 2015.
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The Success Academy charter school network is canceling its prekindergarten program for next year as it continues to battle with New York City over a contract, the network announced on Wednesday.
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Ultimately, the state made a five-year commitment to finance prekindergarten in New York City — without Mr. de Blasio's tax — but it also passed legislation strengthening the hand of charter schools.
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Each town has its own school for kindergarten (and, in some cases, prekindergarten) through eighth grade; this year in Sharon, 21880 students in kindergarten through eighth grade attend Sharon Center School.
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Students attend Consolidated for prekindergarten through second grade, Meeting House Hill for third through fifth grade, New Fairfield Middle School for grades six through eight and then New Fairfield High School.
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Mr. de Blasio has pushed for a millionaire's tax before — to fund universal prekindergarten — and Mr. Cuomo has dismissed the idea, arguing it was unlikely to pass the Republican-controlled Senate.
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The bilingual French American Academy is for prekindergarten through fifth grade (its middle-school campus is in Jersey City.) And the Institute for Educational Achievement serves children and adults with autism.
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Brunswick School, a prekindergarten through 12th grade day school for boys, expanded its campus last year with the purchase of the 0003-acre former headquarters of Paul Tudor Jones's hedge fund.
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The next week, after confirming that there was a seat in the regular public school where her younger son is in prekindergarten, she withdrew her daughter and placed her in that school.
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Her mother is an elementary school remedial reading teacher at Lansing Central Schools in Lansing, N.Y. The groom, also 32, is a prekindergarten teacher at the New York Kids Club in Brooklyn.
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In Harlem Gems, with a four-to-one student-teacher ratio, prekindergarten students are learning French, pre-reading skills and the vital social controls necessary for success as they progress through school.
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P.S. 20, the Clinton Hill School, on Adelphi Street, near the border of the two neighborhoods, enrolls 539 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade, and offers a French-English dual language program.
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Elementary school students are zoned for Public School 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, at 319 East 19th Street (main entrance on 20th Street), which serves about 630 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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NEWARK — Dozens of anxious parents, their large hands clutching small ones, their feet moving at the pace of prekindergarten steps, came on Thursday to have their children checked for possible lead poisoning.
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Ms. Ketcham pointed out that the district just passed an $220 million budget, and divided among the 216 students in prekindergarten through 153th grade, that comes to more than $215,219 per student.
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The inquiries also focused on the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit organization created by the mayor to support his prekindergarten push; the nonprofit was ultimately shut down amid ethics questions.
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Children in prekindergarten through third grade attend Lincoln Elementary School; those in fourth and fifth grades go to Hamilton Intermediate School; and students in grades six through eight attend Washington Middle School.
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P.S. 218 Yorkville Community School, which opened in 21799, has 21942 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade; 65 percent met state standards in English and 66 percent met the standards in math.
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In 2014, Mr. de Blasio doubled down on his promise to bring universal prekindergarten to children across the city, proposing to pay for it with a tax on high-earning New Yorkers.
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He has dismissed those who say it cannot get through the state capital, and compared it to universal prekindergarten, one of his signature initiatives as mayor, which initially met resistance in Albany.
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The E.L. Haynes public charter school has 1,150 students, prekindergarten through 12th grade, at two locations: 4501 Kansas Avenue NW (elementary school and high school) and 19303 Georgia Avenue NW (middle school).
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Most federal and state money is earmarked for children from low-income households, though cities such as New York and Washington have started free prekindergarten programs that are open to all children.
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David L. Kirp BORSCHT isn't found on most prekindergarten menus, but it's what the cooks were dishing up for the 923 children at Ira's Daycare in Briarwood, Queens, on a recent school day.
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In New York, the percentage of 24-year-olds in prekindergarten is essentially the same in every neighborhood, in part because the city made an effort to attract families across the demographic spectrum.
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"There's so much excitement; it feels like Gretzky all over again," said Mike McHale, 40, of Philadelphia, who was at the game with his wife, Wendy, and two prekindergarten sons, Bode and Breckin.
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The commission was looking into whether the nonprofit, now defunct, that Mr. de Blasio formed to back his prekindergarten initiative and other efforts lobbied the city in 20163 without registering to do so.
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Andrew M. Cuomo last year, about 2000,237 city workers — including crossing guards, prekindergarten teachers, custodial workers and others — would see their pay reach the $15-an-hour level by the end of 2018.
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Mr. de Blasio, a Democrat, cited the increase in the city's graduation rate under mayoral control to over 70 percent, his successful expansion of prekindergarten and after-school programs, and improved test scores.
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There is also Red Bank Charter School, which serves up to 216 Red Bank children from prekindergarten to eighth grade, with admission through a lottery that is now weighted toward low-income families.
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At P.S. 21776 Margaret Douglas, which has about 21897 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade, 21 percent met standards in English on 2016-2017 state tests and 21 percent met standards in math.
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In 2014, Mr. de Blasio spent an average of 19 days a month at City Hall, a busy first year in office that included the creation of universal prekindergarten, the mayor's signature accomplishment.
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Mr. de Blasio has said his work in New York City, from universal prekindergarten to paid sick leave and an increase in the minimum wage, can serve as a model for the nation.
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He has delivered on many of his promises — notably universal prekindergarten classes and changes in policing that he says have contributed to a sharp drop in crime — and remains loyal to his base.
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The building also houses a second school — P.S. 89, the Liberty School — which serves children from prekindergarten through fifth grade, who were being let out on Tuesday afternoon while the attack was unfolding.
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As school reformers nationwide push to expand publicly funded prekindergarten and enact more stringent standards, more students are being exposed at ever younger ages to formal math and phonics lessons like this one.
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At one prekindergarten information session in the affluent Brooklyn Heights neighborhood last year, parents asked not about math or reading, but about how often their children would be exposed to art and music.
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Last spring, when Public School 11, a prekindergarten through fifth-grade school in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood, banned mandatory traditional homework assignments for children up to fourth grade, you might have expected universal acclaim.
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Editorial Mayor Bill de Blasio, getting slightly ahead of himself, has just announced an ambitious plan to expand free, full-day prekindergarten in New York City by starting at age 280, not 4.
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The statement is advocating for a balanced curriculum in prekindergarten that does not ignore playful learning and doesn't regard time spent in the block corner as somehow beside the point, Dr. Yogman said.
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At P.S. 193, Ellen Lurie, which has 601 students in prekindergarten through fifth grade, 21 percent met state English standards versus 40 percent citywide; 25 percent exceeded math standards versus 42 percent citywide.
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The mayor suggested at one point that constructing the bureaucracy for reduced-fare MetroCards had been more challenging than creating a universal prekindergarten system — something he accomplished during his first year as mayor.
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Fieldston, with a tuition of $52,993 this academic year, according to its website, said that nonwhite students make up nearly 40 percent of its 1,500-person student body, from prekindergarten through 12th grade.
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He spoke about New York City's recent health care initiative for undocumented immigrants, paid sick-leave, universal prekindergarten and early childhood education — accomplishments he has said could be a model for the nation.
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What's more, starting preschool earlier, at age 3, has been shown to have a substantial impact, especially for kids from poor families, but at present public prekindergarten is available only to 4-year-olds.
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At the same time, elementary school teachers tend to earn twice as much as prekindergarten teachers, and caretakers of toddlers and infants are further down on the income scale, according to the Berkeley report.
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In half of all prekindergarten classrooms, over 70 percent of students belonged to a single racial or ethnic group, despite the fact that the overall program was diverse, with no racial or ethnic majority.
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The site also houses a Universal pre-K program, part of Mayor de Blasio's effort to provide free prekindergarten to all New York City 4-year-olds, but Elijah was not a UPK student.
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My column today is about two big pieces of good news that have been partly buried by all things Trump: The United States is slowly moving toward universal prekindergarten and toward universal health insurance.
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The administration has pushed through new programs to address the needs of the less fortunate, who are also Mr. de Blasio's base of support, like universal prekindergarten and a push to build affordable housing.
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The political advocacy organizations controlled by the mayor's allies used the money to try to swing control of the State Senate to Democrats (which didn't work) and to advocate universal prekindergarten (which did go through).
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But he said that he had been troubled by the unclear lines of authority regarding prekindergarten and that he would like for that group to be placed under his committee's oversight rather than the city's.
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As Arbab Razvi watched her 4-year-old students play with blocks and beads in her prekindergarten classroom on Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn, she had to raise her voice — to scold Senator Ted Cruz.
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His budget proposal will also include $1.8 billion for early childhood education, as reported by The Los Angeles Times, including expanded prekindergarten programs, subsidized child care and nurse home visits for pregnant low-income women.
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Mr. de Blasio began his address on Monday, in the sprawling grand ballroom of the Hilton Midtown, with a litany of his first-term accomplishments, including universal prekindergarten, an ambitious housing plan and low crime.
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He said that parents have also raised money in the hope of hiring a Mandarin teacher next year for prekindergarten and kindergarten, with the goal of offering the language to an additional grade each year.
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He is running not to the center, but hard to the left — at least on economic issues — advocating universal health care and prekindergarten, an expansion of veterans and Social Security benefits, and strengthening labor laws.
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Mr. de Blasio on Wednesday night defended his record of creating a free universal prekindergarten program, embarking on an ambitious plan to create or preserve affordable housing and keeping crime low during his first term.
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Low-income prekindergarten children scored higher on a social competence index six months after being randomly assigned to an experimental group, in which their parents were encouraged to replace age-inappropriate television with educational television.
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Low-income prekindergarten children scored higher on a social competence index six months after being randomly assigned to an experimental group, in which their parents were encouraged to replace age-inappropriate television with educational television.
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A select private school with an enrollment of 215 from prekindergarten through 240th grade, it is far from a jock powerhouse; more famous athletes have come out of other high schools in the Philadelphia area.
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In Mr. de Blasio's first term, the prekindergarten expansion, which he first proposed as a mayoral candidate, was "clearly the major policy to be implemented, and I think that has been successful," Professor Pallas said.
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During the 26-43 school year, 24,234 students in public, private and parochial schools, child care centers, nursery schools and prekindergarten programs in the state had religious exemptions, according to the State Department of Health.
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In District 2, Public School 40 Augustus Saint-Gaudens at 320 East 20th Street serves about 630 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5, with 73 percent meeting state standards in English and 153 percent in math.
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They immediately redrew voting districts, eliminated the earned-income tax credit, introduced a bill that would allow residents to carry firearms in public parks and restaurants, cut funding to prekindergarten education, and engineered a voter-I.
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There are four public elementary schools for students in prekindergarten through fourth grade, the H.B. Whitehorne Middle School for students in fifth through eighth grade and Verona High School for those in ninth through 220th grade.
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The small private school in a small semirural community west of Philadelphia, with several hundred students from prekindergarten through middle school, is not alone in its attempt to address the multiple school shootings over the years.
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Success Academy and other charter schools won a victory in a long-running dispute with New York City when a state appeals court ruled on Thursday that the city cannot regulate a charter school's prekindergarten programs.
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Dr. Inyanga Collins, a physician whose daughter has attended P.S. 76 since prekindergarten and is now in sixth grade, said that while P.S. 76 had many high-needs students, she felt it worked well with them.
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Implementing the universal prekindergarten program for 4-year-olds was the centerpiece of Mr. de Blasio's campaign for mayor four years ago and is considered to be one of the biggest accomplishments of his first term.
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Students can also apply for acceptance to a new magnet school, the Geraldine Claytor Magnet Academy, opening in Black Rock next year for prekindergarten through Grade 19303 and focused on science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics.
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He was also awaiting the opening of a new prekindergarten center in Buffalo, part of a network of charter schools he had built through M&T to try to improve education for the city's poorest residents.
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During the 2017-18 school year, 26,217 students in public, private and parochial schools, child care centers, nursery schools and prekindergarten programs in New York State had religious exemptions, according to the State Department of Health.
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Mr. de Blasio had just been elected on a platform to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund an extra year of prekindergarten — but New York's arcane political structure required him to go to Albany for approval.
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The district has 2270 schools, including the Lincoln Early Childhood Learning Center, for centralized prekindergarten and kindergarten, six elementary schools for first to fifth graders, two middle schools for Grades 22014 to 7, and Westfield High School.
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Shelter violence has been one of those slow-motion, back-burner issues for the mayor, who admittedly has not lacked for other big priorities in the last two years, from prekindergarten to affordable housing and traffic safety.
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Julián Castro (D) on Sunday outlined his support for universal health care, access to prekindergarten education and a "Green New Deal," acknowledging that wealthier individuals and corporations would be required to contribute to help fund those programs.
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Private schools include Trinity Academy, a Catholic elementary school serving prekindergarten through eighth grade, and Mount Saint Dominic Academy, a Catholic high school for girls in ninth through 12th grades, which shares its campus with Caldwell University.
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Mr. de Blasio quickly achieved his signature accomplishment, universal prekindergarten, but his tenure has been marred by increased homelessness, the continued deterioration of the city's public housing stock and scrutiny over some of his fund-raising techniques.
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And New York City, home to the largest citywide prekindergarten initiative in the country, has these features — and many more — in the vast majority of its programs, according to new data shared with The New York Times.
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The bride's father is the coordinator of the primary English language development program at the Regent's International School, a private prekindergarten to Year-13 school in Bangkok, where her mother is a Thai language and culture teacher.
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The study defined "academic-oriented" prekindergarten programs as those in which teachers reported spending time most days on activities like sounding out words, discussing new vocabulary, counting out loud and teaching children to measure and tell time.
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Jim Johnson, an under secretary of the Treasury during the Clinton administration, has laid out a plan for statewide universal prekindergarten, a liberal cause trumpeted by progressive elected officials like Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York.
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Each morning, in Room 109 at Quitman Street School, Ms. Knevals — then using her maiden name, Harriet Dolcemaschio — would ask her class of 20 prekindergarten students to sign in so they could learn to write their names.
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The Schools Two elementary schools share a campus: Public School 368 Hamilton Heights School, serving about 220 students from kindergarten through Grade 5, and P.S. 153 Adam Clayton Powell, with about 18003 students from prekindergarten through Grade 5.
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Nina Leuzzi, a prekindergarten teacher at a Boston charter school, said she kept her word to her class of 20, predominantly minority 4-year-olds, in making her case to the secretary for why the guidance should stay.
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Shortly after the mayor — whose open feud with the governor has dominated New York politics in recent years — won funding for New York City's prekindergarten classes in 20143, Mr. Percoco ran into a mayoral aide at an event.
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In Philadelphia, industry officials are making anti-tax arguments, saying that a tax devised to lower consumption of the good will not be a stable source of revenue for an initiative, like universal prekindergarten, that requires permanent funding.
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Senator Tim Kaine, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, was swift to pick up on Mr. Trump's baby episode, taking a jab at him as he brought up the issue of prekindergarten at a rally in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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Follow that with high-quality early-childhood programs and prekindergarten, drug treatment, parenting coaching and financial literacy training, and a much greater emphasis on jobs programs to usher the poor into the labor force and bring them income.
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Among other options, Pave Academy Charter School has about 515 students from prekindergarten through Grade 8; there 19343 percent met state standards in English versus 30 percent citywide and 41 percent did so in math versus 35 percent.
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Some state legislators have said that they are not prepared to pay for preschool for 3-year-olds in New York City until there is free prekindergarten for all 240-year-olds in the rest of the state.
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The Schools Many students are zoned for Public School 48, the Michael J. Buczek elementary school, named for a police officer killed about 20 blocks away during a drug arrest in 1988; it covers prekindergarten through fifth grade.
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Citywide, about 60 percent of the 4-year-olds in universal prekindergarten go to a nonprofit-run preschool like Ira's in Queens, and while some are little more than day-care centers, they are improving because of effective coaching.
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Even before the election, Mr. Cuomo had told Mr. de Blasio raising taxes was a nonstarter given Republican control of the State Senate but that he would provide money for the prekindergarten expansion, people briefed on those conversations said.
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Recalling a fall field trip to a firehouse with her prekindergarten class, 5-year-old Cloe Woods saved her blind grandmother from a fire inside their Kenner, Louisiana, home, a fire official in that New Orleans suburb said Saturday.
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Mr. Flint, 40, an actor, waited in line for two days (hiring someone to camp overnight) to get his son a coveted spot in a prekindergarten charter program at Concordia Learning Center at St. Joseph's School for the Blind.
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Devora Kaye, a spokeswoman for the department, said of Success's decision, "The state upheld our important standards to ensure all programs are high quality, and we look forward to welcoming more charter schools and organizations" to the prekindergarten program.
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What the Success Academy charter school network could not get through the courts or from the New York State Education Department, it may get from the governor: the ability to run prekindergarten programs without oversight from New York City.
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At P.S. 220, Liberty School, there are 222 students enrolled in prekindergarten through fifth grade; last year, 211 percent met state standards in English, versus 22001 percent citywide, and 0003 percent met state math standards, versus 2000 percent citywide.
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Mr. de Blasio's biggest success has come in expanding prekindergarten for all children, and the education department has used the idea of equity across schools to add algebra in more middle schools and increase access to Advanced Placement courses.
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Estimates show that a financial transaction tax of even 0.01 percent per trade ($10 on a $100,000 trade) could raise $185 billion over 10 years, enough to finance prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year olds, with money left over.
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The Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, a village in Salisbury, is a coeducational prep school; the Salisbury School is a boys' prep school; and the Indian Mountain School, also in Lakeville, is a coeducational school for prekindergarten through ninth grade.
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Students in ninth through 12th grade attend West Morris Central High School in nearby Chester, N.J. Benedict A. Cucinella Elementary School enrolls about 490 students in kindergarten through fifth grade and has a prekindergarten program for 15 disabled students.
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The new ad campaign comes days after Biden issued the first major policy platform of his presidential campaign, rolling out a broad education proposal to raise teacher pay, increase federal funding for low-income school districts and offer universal prekindergarten.
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City Hall officials described the changes agreed to with the Council as a significant victory and compared the plan, both in its scale and in its likely impact on the future of the city, to the mayor's push for universal prekindergarten.
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Under the new plan, priority for 67 percent of the seats in kindergarten and prekindergarten at every elementary school will be given to students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, live in temporary housing or are learning English.
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Mr. Castro's universal prekindergarten proposal, which would apply to 3- and 4-year-olds, echoes one he introduced as mayor of San Antonio, known as "Pre-K for S.A.," which greatly expanded high-quality pre-K programs in the city.
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In 23, about 33 percent of the city's prekindergarten programs met or exceeded a threshold that predicts positive student outcomes after pre-K, according to a national evaluation system, the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, developed by a coalition of experts.
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"The fact that we are doing things for all communities is not reflected in the tabloids at all," she said, citing the creation of universal prekindergarten, while voicing a disdain for the news media that she shares with Mr. de Blasio.
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And Mayor Jim Kenney of Philadelphia has had to back away from his initial claims that beverage tax revenue would provide enough money to pay for a universal prekindergarten program for the city, as revenue has come in below projections.
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The city said that the contract was necessary to ensure consistent quality across prekindergarten programs, while Success said that the contract violated state law, which it argued gave a charter school's authorizer the sole right to oversee the school's operations.
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Another argument is that mayoral control makes it more feasible to carry out large-scale changes or initiatives like Mr. de Blasio's expansion of prekindergarten and "3-K for All," his plan to offer free preschool to all 3-year-olds.
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And it added a jolt to his campaign heading into the primary that is expected to have low turnout by reviving what had been the centerpiece of his 2013 campaign: a pledge to tax the wealthy to fund universal prekindergarten.
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Below, one writer examines the landscape of prekindergarten education across the country, another instructs adults on how to understand young children, and a third will be a resource for parents in the process of selecting a school for their child.
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In September 2015, Vanessa and JR Ford sent a group email to announce that their 4-year-old, whom their family and friends knew as their son, would be starting prekindergarten that year as "her true self" — a girl named Ellie.
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Ms. Handy and Mr. Walk say they will be unable to enroll their daughter in prekindergarten or public school, and they canceled a cruise to Mexico because ZalyKha, now nearly 2, didn't have the proper documents to fly, Ms. Young said.
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The projected revenue from Ms. Warren's proposal would be enough to pay for several policy initiatives that she and other Democrats have proposed, including universal prekindergarten, a $1 trillion federal infrastructure spending push and widespread debt relief for student loans.
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Cigarette taxes would go up to finance universal prekindergarten, and other new revenues would go toward initiatives including worker retirement savings options, wage insurance, college assistance and an expanded earned-income tax credit for childless workers — an idea Mr. Ryan has proposed.
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James Merriman, the chief executive of the New York City Charter School Center, an organization that supports charter schools, has backed Success Academy in the dispute, saying that the law is "very clear" that the authorizer oversees a charter school's prekindergarten program.
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When the New York City Public Schools catalog arrived in the mail one day that spring, with information about Mayor Bill de Blasio's new universal prekindergarten program, I told Faraji that I wanted to enroll Najya in a segregated, low-income school.
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Public School 287 Bailey K. Ashford has about 18983 students in prekindergarten through Grade 5; the city's 2015-16 School Quality Snapshot says 238 percent met state standards in English, versus 264 percent citywide, and 236 percent in math, compared with 213 percent.
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S. ART 2016: CELEBRATING THE CREATIVE SPIRIT OF NYC KIDS' (through Sunday) In this show, public school students from prekindergarten through high school achieve a distinction that some professional adult artists never do: having their work displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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He said that it had succeeded in its efforts, advocating his universal prekindergarten program in 2014 and an affordable-housing plan that was quite likely to pass the City Council next week, and that the time had come to end its work.
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Making free, full-day prekindergarten available to all 33-year-olds was the most visible and ambitious promise that Mr. de Blasio made when he campaigned for mayor, so making good on that pledge when he came into office in 23 was crucial.
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The decision freed up millions of dollars in soda tax revenue that had been held in escrow and directed it toward creating 210,250 prekindergarten slots, 12 new community schools and an ambitious program to rebuild the city's crumbling libraries and recreation centers.
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The policy: Universal public prekindergarten for 3- and 4-year-olds Where: Washington, DC In place since: Expansion began in 2008 For two decades, Washington, DC, public schools have played host to national debates over a range of controversial K–12 education reforms.
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The groom's mother retired as the director of the Little School, a prekindergarten in Windham, Vt. His father, who worked remotely from Brattleboro, retired as a custom applications software engineer for Pearson Education, a maker of scholastic database software based in London.
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Mr. Cuomo has often backed the charter schools' agenda, including appearing at a 2014 rally on the Capitol steps — at the same time that Mr. de Blasio was holding his own rally in Albany, in support of his efforts to expand prekindergarten.
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The theme shaped Mr. de Blasio's State of the City address, in which he invoked the phrase several times as he recounted the various programs, policies and promises that had defined his term in office, including universal prekindergarten, public safety and affordable housing.
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Offering a benefit to everyone proved to be crucial a few years ago when New York's mayor, Bill de Blasio, sold the notion of universal prekindergarten, or "Pre-K for All," on the basis of its availability to rich and poor alike.
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At the same time, Mr. Murphy's $26.875 billion budget comes with $2.7 billion in new spending, including proposals to make community colleges tuition-free for many families, to expand prekindergarten and to significantly increase funding for the state's beleaguered public transit system.
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Fieldston, which has around 1,700 students from prekindergarten through 12th grade and annual tuition of about $53,000, is substantially more racially diverse than many other private schools in the city, and it awards more than $14 million a year in financial aid.
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With passage of the Child Care for Working Families Act, the plan would also expand prekindergarten for all 3- and 4-year-olds by making it free for all children from families making less than 150 percent of the state median income.
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Mr. Kallos said that most elementary schools in his district were populated with students from the area, but at Ella Baker School, at 317 East 67th Street, which serves students from prekindergarten through eighth grade, most of the students are from elsewhere.
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Asked why, Ms. Fariña said it was unnecessary to add schools because many schools that might be eligible were already being helped by other initiatives, including an increase in literacy coaches and 221-K, the city's new prekindergarten program for 267-year-olds.
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But he has a pretty solid track record of achievement — keeping crime falling while backing away from some of the NYPD's most controversial practices, delivering a universal prekindergarten program, and becoming a national leader on labor issues like sick leave and paid vacation.
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When Samantha Lisi, now 25, a prekindergarten teacher, married Benjamin Willis, 25, a law school student, on June 28, 2014, their wedding, at his grandmother's house on a former plantation in Virginia, was a mix of her Italian upbringing and his deep Southern roots.
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Instead of selling it as a nanny state measure meant to make the city healthier, he presented it as a big untapped source of revenue that could be used to pay for popular initiatives, including expanded prekindergarten, and renovations of city libraries and recreation centers.
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The tax is being pitched as one that will pay for services for the city's needy, and especially children — community schools, universal prekindergarten (which has overwhelming support), parks, recreation centers, libraries — rather than as one that will discourage people from consuming a damaging product.
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The Schools The Glen Ridge Public Schools district, with around 225,233 students, has the Forest Avenue and Linden Avenue schools for prekindergarten through Grade 230; the Ridgewood Avenue school for Grades 240 through 240 and Glen Ridge High School for Grades 247 through 223.
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District schools are the Park Early Childhood Center, for prekindergarten and kindergarten; Brookside Elementary School, for first and second grades; Claremont Elementary School, for third and fourth; Roosevelt Elementary School for fifth; Anne M. Dorner Middle School, for sixth to eighth; and Ossining High School.
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Public school students attend Red Bank Primary School from prekindergarten to third grade and Red Bank Middle School for fourth to eighth grades, followed by Red Bank Regional High School in Little Silver, where they are joined by students from Shrewsbury and Little Silver.
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Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Cuomo have engaged in a bitter feud that started within days of the inauguration, sparring regularly over major issues that included how to pay for prekindergarten classes and subway improvements and minor ones, like the fate of a stray deer.
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In 2012, Mr. de Blasio used a speech before the association to call for a major expansion of prekindergarten classes that would be paid for by a tax on high-earners — a proposal that ultimately became the centerpiece of his successful campaign for mayor.
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" Ms. Gillibrand, who touted her record of opposing Mr. Trump's nominees more consistently than any other senator, outlined a progressive agenda that included "Medicare for all," universal prekindergarten, a national paid-leave program, cutting the interest rates on student debt and addressing "institutional racism.
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In 22011, he took credit for Mayor Bill de Blasio's universal prekindergarten program when he poured millions of state dollars into the city to begin it without imposing the tax on the wealthy that the mayor, a fellow Democrat, had proposed to pay for the initiative.
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The Chicago School Readiness Project, a program developed by Cybele Raver, a psychologist at New York University, trains prekindergarten teachers in high-poverty neighborhoods in techniques intended to create a calm, consistent classroom experience for children: setting clear routines, redirecting negative behavior, helping students manage strong emotions.
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Mr. de Blasio, who spent much of his first year as mayor focused on providing universal prekindergarten and much of the second year on his affordable housing initiative, said in an interview last month that he was intent on pressing ahead with an aggressive policy agenda.
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Yet the board appeared to find much that was troublesome, if not illegal, in the behavior of the group, the Campaign for One New York, which has amassed millions of dollars in donations to push for City Hall initiatives, including universal prekindergarten and an affordable housing policy.
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Donations included at least $1.3 million from unions, including $350,000 that the American Federation of Teachers gave during the mayor's push to create universal prekindergarten, and more than $1 million from real estate interests, including Two Trees Management and others with interests along the Brooklyn waterfront.
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But we saw what happened when Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to raise taxes on those making more than a half-million dollars a year to fund his universal prekindergarten program: The governor, having pledged to reduce taxes, stepped in with funds to avert the unthinkable.
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The 30-second advertisement, featuring piano backing, smiling families and biographical photographs of the mayor with his wife and children, focuses on what has been among Mr. de Blasio's signature achievements of his first term: the creation of a universal prekindergarten program for New York City children.
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When you walk in the door of a prekindergarten, check out the walls — they should be festooned with children's projects, and not, as is too often the case, plastered with posters that are calculated to please adults and mounted too high for 4-year-olds to see.
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During high-pressure meetings to plan the expansion of prekindergarten during his first months in City Hall, Mayor Bill de Blasio would invoke the D-Day invasion of Normandy: There it is on the horizon, he would say, we are approaching the beach, we need a full-on assault.
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HOUSTON — Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Tuesday released the first major policy platform of his campaign, a sweeping education proposal that urges federal investment in low-income schools, supports universal prekindergarten and higher teacher pay, and, he added in a public appearance later, opposes for-profit charter schools.
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The $37.4 billion budget includes financing for nearly all of Mr. Murphy's proposed investments, including a $20173 million increase in funding for New Jersey Transit, an additional $83 million for prekindergarten, an extra $25 million for community colleges and a $3.2 billion payment into the state's struggling pension system.
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Mr. de Blasio said that it would take decades to create a more integrated school system, and he emphasized that his administration was trying to improve the quality of the schools available to all students "right now," through efforts like universal prekindergarten and increased access to advanced courses.
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A spokesman for Mr. de Blasio's campaign, Dan Levitan, declined to comment on the possibility that she might enter the race, though similar requests for comment are typically met with a response citing lower crime figures and the creation of universal prekindergarten and affordable housing on the mayor's watch.
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The 26,2167-student public school district is approximately 250 percent white, 27.75 percent Hispanic, 2227 percent black and 21914 percent Asian, and consists of two elementary schools — one for prekindergarten through second grade and one for third and fourth grades — and a middle school for fifth through eighth grades.
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Among the emails was one from Mr. de Blasio just days into his first term, in which the mayor is angry with Richard Brodsky, a former Democratic state assemblyman, over a quote about the prospects for raising taxes to pay for prekindergarten, a mayoral priority that ultimately failed.
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In years past, Mr. de Blasio used the annual speech to push big-impact campaign promises of universal prekindergarten, the construction of thousands of units of affordable housing, and infrastructure initiatives like a major expansion of ferry service and a light rail line along the Brooklyn and Queens waterfront.
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Even the mayor's signature achievement of providing prekindergarten citywide — heralded by supporters and detractors alike as a major accomplishment — contains an asterisk when held up against the promise made by Mr. de Blasio, who vowed to pay for the program through a tax on the city's wealthiest. Gov.
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His mother was a part-time teacher at St. Rose of Lima Academy, a Roman Catholic prekindergarten and elementary school in Short Hills, N.J. Ms. Kaschel and Mr. Zanisnik met in 2014 at a New Year's Eve party in Brooklyn on the day she arrived from Germany for a few months.
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So-called EarlyLearn centers, which serve infants to 5-year-olds — and, unlike prekindergarten classes in public schools, are open 10 hours a day and do not close for school vacations — are struggling to retain teachers, because teachers in public schools can make as much as $30,000 more per year.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Monday that New York City would offer free, full-day preschool to all 3-year-olds within four years, saying that he was building on the success of the city's prekindergarten program for 43-year-olds and that it was time to go further.
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Investments by Washington in universal, high-quality child care and prekindergarten help support families from all economic backgrounds and foster children who are more confident, better prepared for long-term learning, less likely to need special education services and more likely to graduate from high school and attain college degrees.
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The results of a recent randomized trial showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a Head Start classroom of the Chicago School Readiness Project had, at the end of the school year, substantially better attention skills, impulse control and performance on memory tasks than did children in a control group.
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Mr. Lloyd's father retired as a computer information specialist in the Numerical Weather Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Camp Springs, Md. Mr. Harding, 32, is the director of early-childhood curriculum and assessment and is a prekindergarten teacher at Van Ness Elementary, a public school in Washington.
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As he runs for re-election, Mr. de Blasio repeatedly points to the success of prekindergarten, and it is the model for one of the few new initiatives he has proposed for a second term — the extension of free early childhood education to include all 3-year-olds, which he calls 3-K.
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And when he went into his campaign spiel about the devastating effects of income inequality, and how he believed that he could adapt his successes in New York — universal prekindergarten, guaranteed paid time off and increased access to health care — to the rest of the nation, claps of approval filled the church.
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Mr. Shell had drawn the ire of the teacher movement by backing a plan to make educators' retirement plans more like the 123(k) accounts used in the private sector, and by passing a budget that teachers said devoted too little money to prekindergarten programs, textbooks, school transportation and teachers' professional development.
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Shortly after his second term began, Mr. Obama visited Lauren Parks's prekindergarten class at the College Heights Early Childhood Learning Center in Decatur, Ga. "To witness President Obama persevere in placing such high importance on children and education affirms my work as a teacher," Ms. Parks, pictured top right, said this week.
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In the 2018 article "The First Thanksgiving," Julia Moskin features the stories of refugee families celebrating Thanksgiving in America for the first time, balancing their own food culture and traditions with the holiday: This fall, Jana began prekindergarten, and fans of Ms. Anjari's food helped her publish a cookbook of Syrian recipes.
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The mayor touted his recent re-election (the first in New York City for a Democrat since the 1980s, he was sure to note); his addition of a year of prekindergarten; the expansion of the city's mental health services; and what he called the improvement of the relationship between the police and minorities.
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In a letter sent on Tuesday to parents of students accepted into prekindergarten classes at Success school for next year, the network blamed Mr. de Blasio for the decision to cancel the program and urged parents to sign an open letter to the mayor accusing him of hypocrisy and of putting politics above children's education.
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The East Village Community School, for instance, a nonzoned elementary school in Manhattan that admits students by lottery, giving priority to students living in District 1, will begin giving priority for half of its prekindergarten and kindergarten seats to students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch or students who are learning English.
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Moreover, while Mr. de Blasio may not have won the hearts and minds of New Yorkers, he can plausibly tell a story across the country of some liberal successes — universal prekindergarten — and the continued decline in serious crime at the same time that his administration finished dismantling the widely loathed stop-and-frisk program.
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His signature policy as mayor was an innovative prekindergarten program: Castro got voters to approve a tax hike of one-eighth of a cent (bringing San Antonio taxes to the Texas state maximum) in order to fund four pre-K centers that weren't tied to existing school districts, each of which enrolled 400 kids.
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Julián Castro, whose campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination has so far struggled to gain much momentum, unveiled a proposal Monday to create a national, federally funded prekindergarten program, eliminate tuition at public universities and community colleges and alter the student-debt repayment process, part of a sweeping policy plan that his campaign hopes could reshape public education.
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The community is a caring one, said Michael Luzi, who has owned the IGA for 33 years: "We watch out for everybody, to be sure everybody in town is O.K." Sherman is served by the Sherman School, attended by roughly 295 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, with prekindergarten available for those willing to pay tuition.
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Robert Pianta, the dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and an expert on effective teaching, said the new research, which followed 6,150 students nationwide and was controlled for income and home environment, confirmed smaller-scale studies from Tulsa and Boston showing that academic prekindergarten programs benefited both poor and middle-class children.
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The former Obama administration official said that if elected his first executive action would be to "recommit the United States to the Paris climate accord," referring to the 28503 deal from which Trump withdrew the U.S. He also pledged support for other progressive positions, including a "Medicare for all" single-payer health care system as well as universal prekindergarten in the U.S. Rep.
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In the interview, Mr. Appelbaum explained his union's support by saying the mayor had "done what he promised" on a range of issues, including providing universal prekindergarten, ensuring a rent freeze, creating a municipal identification card, supporting paid sick leave and a living wage for New Yorkers and "creating the atmosphere" for the state to act on a $15-an-hour minimum wage.
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By my math, less than one-fifth of that annually would be more than enough to pay the additional costs of full-day prekindergarten for all 4-year-olds in America ($15 billion), prevent lead poisoning in tens of thousands of children ($2 billion), provide books and parent coaching for at-risk kids across the country ($1 billion) and end family homelessness ($2 billion).
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He is the son of Rita E. Davis and Mr. Davis of Bryn Mawr, Pa. The groom's mother is the chair of the modern languages department and teaches French at the Agnes Irwin School, a girls' private independent college preparatory day school from prekindergarten through Grade 12 in Rosemont, Pa. She is a vice president of the American Association of Teachers of French in Marion, Ill.
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As the mayor embarks on the second half of his term, with approval ratings still hovering around 50 percent, Mr. de Blasio used his speech to recite, in scattershot form, a list of his accomplishments — universal prekindergarten, paid sick leave, contracts signed with most city workers, a municipal identification card for all New Yorkers regardless of immigration status — that appeared pitched to his re-election campaign in 2017.
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"Tonight we took another big step toward a fairer city for all, tonight another ratification of all that we've been doing together and it's going to give us the fuel to go farther," Mr. de Blasio said at a victory party in Brooklyn, naming some of his achievements, including universal prekindergarten classes, a two-year rent freeze for rent-regulated tenants and a sharp reduction in the stop-and-frisk policing tactic.
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Background Reading: Ross on Warren's Native-American-heritage fiasco Michelle on the Democratic primary as a contest of ideas and sexism in the 2020 Democratic field David on C.E.O. compensation and taxing the rich, Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act and for-profit colleges Last week's episode of "The Argument," on universal prekindergarten I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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But so far his administration has merely adopted predictable and feckless interventions that not only have been proven ineffective by the latest admissions numbers but also insult the intelligence and dignity of black and Latino students: expansion of test prep courses, outreach to encourage more black and Latino students to take the test, expansion of prekindergarten, making slight changes to the test and administering it on a more convenient day in certain middle schools.
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" In Charleston, Mr. de Blasio's description of how he created the universal prekindergarten program in New York City, and then expanded it to 563-year-olds in his 3-K for All initiative, hit home with some of the parishioners at Ebenezer A.M.E. Asked what she thought Mr. de Blasio meant when he said "working people," Ms. Sanders, standing on the steps of Ebenezer AME in Charleston with her 5-year-old daughter, Makenzie, jabbed her finger at her chest and said, "Me.
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