Ken Fisher is quoted in a Vital City article discussing Bill de Blasio’s legacy as a former New York City mayor. It is widely agreed that de Blasio’s greatest achievement as mayor was the introduction of universal pre-K, achieved by securing $300 million from the State of New York for a program that has since provided education to 73,000 children annually. “I don’t think he gets enough credit for universal pre-K,” said Ken. “Clearly, this was a big accomplishment. Not that it was necessarily controversial, but logistically it was something that was difficult to do, to basically will a new part of the school system into being.”
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