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De Blasio’s characterization of New York City under his predecessor and billionaire businessman Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as a “Tale of Two Cities” won the progressive Democrat a landslide victory. The issue resonated, as did the candidate’s vision for a more equal city.

NEW YORK—Some community providers are having trouble filling their prekindergarten classes for the upcoming school year, a Brooklyn community activist said Tuesday.

NEW YORK—Glenn Peters is an actor. But after 20 years in theater and 40th birthday at hand his agents stopped calling. Months without an audition, meditating over his future, a city-sponsored subway ad caught his attention: “Teach NYC Pre-K. New York’s future starts with you!”

Thousands of parents received letters Thursday offering free full-day prekindergarten seats for their children this coming school year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is urging parents to sign up their four-year-olds for an expanded prekindergarten program. The city just added more than 3,000 new seats, and another 1,200 were bumped up from half-day to full-day.

Mayor Bill de Blasio indicated today he’s ready to drop his request for state approval to tax wealthy NYC residents if funding provided by the state is stable enough to provide for universal prekindergarten.

NEW YORK— Mayor Bill de Blasio’s education expansion will create an estimated 5,500 full- and part-time jobs, as well as allow over a thousand part-time jobs to become full time, according to an Epoch Times analysis.

NEW YORK—The day after state Sen. Dean Skelos said he would block a vote on Mayor Bill de Blasio’s prekindergarten proposal, de Blasio insisted the issue be voted on and rallied clergy Tuesday to push state senators to act. De Blasio spoke to more than 200 clergy, including Rev. Al Sharpton, at a breakfast at Bethany Baptist Church in Brooklyn calling on them to mobilize their congregations.