{"id":39060,"date":"2015-02-12T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=39060"},"modified":"2015-02-12T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T19:37:20","slug":"universal-pre-k-not-universal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/universal-pre-k-not-universal\/","title":{"rendered":"When Universal Pre-K is Not Universal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/abc_blocks-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"abc_blocks\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-39062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/abc_blocks-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/files\/abc_blocks.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u201cWe will offer every child, from every borough of this city, truly universal, full-day Pre-K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s promise to the children of New York City one year ago in his inaugural State of the City address. The Mayor&#8217;s pledge of a free pre-K program available to every four-year-old in New York City \u2014 regardless of background, religion, or socio-economic status \u2014 signaled an exciting and visionary approach to early childhood education for all New York preschoolers.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this signature education program that promised universality \u2014 not just in the nature of the program but in its very name \u2014 has fallen far short of the commitments the mayor made one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s recall that last year Mayor de Blasio was granted $300 million from New York State to implement his universal pre-K program. With such resources, and in light of the Mayor\u2019s stated desire for universal participation, we anticipated that all 4-year-olds in the Orthodox community \u2014 together with all other eligible children in New York \u2014 would have a place in UPK.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/editorial-opinion\/opinion\/when-universal-pre-k-not-universal\">The Jewish Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe will offer every child, from every borough of this city, truly universal, full-day Pre-K.\u201d That was Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s promise to the children of New York City one year ago in his inaugural State of the City address. The Mayor&#8217;s pledge of a free pre-K program available to every four-year-old in New York<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When Universal Pre-K is Not Universal - OU Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/education\/universal-pre-k-not-universal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"When Universal Pre-K is Not Universal - OU Life\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cWe will offer every child, from every borough of this city, truly universal, full-day Pre-K.\u201d That was Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s promise to the children of New York City one year ago in his inaugural State of the City address. 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