De Blasio, Pelosi visit Brooklyn school to tout Universal pre-K
House Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi visited Brooklyn on Wednesday to showcase a pre-K program at P.S. 123 in Bushwick with U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña.
Pelosi touted the mayor’s universal pre-K initiative and urged the U.S. to take the program nationwide – a $75 billion proposition which has stalled in Congress.
De Blasio told Pelosi that 68,500 city kids attended full day pre-K. “Just for perspective sake, that is more children than the entire school system of Boston, or the entire – sorry I have to say this – the entire school system of San Francisco, your hometown,” he said.