Mayor Zohran Mamdani is selling universal child care, and this spring he had a number to show for it: 2,000 new free preschool seats. The problem the headline skips is that the city already had thousands of free seats nobody was using, and the new push barely moved the needle on how many families actually got in.
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New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty.
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty
New York added 2,000 free preschool seats and called it universal. Last year 1 in 5 free seats sat empty.
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