Sentences with phrase «pre-k education a right»

The universal pre-K program was a hallmark of de Blasio's campaign to make free pre-K education a right for every New Yorker and to narrow achievement gaps, which start very early in child development.

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At our state conference last month, we overwhelmingly passed resolutions supporting guaranteed healthcare as a human right, free public education from pre-K through college or trade school, a living wage and fair compensation for all, investments in environmental protection and renewable energy, restoration of voting rights to former felons, public financing of elections to eradicate the corrupting influence of big money in politics, and other policies that serve the people.

«I am calling for a Green New Deal for New York to establish the human right of all New Yorkers to economic security and prosperity, including decent jobs, living wages, publicly - funded health care, good public education from pre-K through college, and affordable housing, mass transit, and clean energy,» said Hawkins, a working Teamster who unloads trucks at night at UPS in Syracuse.

Getting Head Start right — turning it into an effective pre-K program for poor kids — should be the focus of a joint effort from education secretary Duncan and HHS secretary Katherine Sebelius.

Right now the ever - changing list of Democratic candidates includes Sal Albanese (who has run twice before, finishing 3d and 8th, and whose education platform focuses on pre-K expansion, one of de Blasio's few success stories); Kevin Coenen (who has a section about education on his website that contains grammatical errors); Robert Gangi, and Collin Slatter (who have no name recognition).

There's the aforementioned Corporate Tax Credit Voucher, Voluntary Pre-K, McKay Scholarship for Exceptional Education Students (ESE) students and a targeted ESA program called the Gardiner Personal Learning Account that expanded the pool of eligible ESE to include 504 classifications and requires recipients to relinquish their right to public eEducation Students (ESE) students and a targeted ESA program called the Gardiner Personal Learning Account that expanded the pool of eligible ESE to include 504 classifications and requires recipients to relinquish their right to public educationeducation.