Bill de Blasio has promised pre-K for all 4-year-olds. Can it get done?

in the news | July 23, 2014

Vox

New America:

Conor Williams: New York is trying in a matter of six months to build the entire system that DC's got twice or three times over. Don't get me wrong, they have some really smart people…Barring someone with supernatural powers, I just don't know how they get this done in the time they have allotted.

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