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From YouTube: Universal Pre-K Announcement - Promo

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Boston is well on its way to having pre-K for every 4-year-old in the city! Mayor Walsh joined BPS Superintendent Laura Perille and members of the Boston Public School Committee at ABCD Head Start Walnut Grove in Dorchester, to announce that the city is putting $15 million into a fund that will provide every 4-year old in Boston the opportunity to have a seat in a high-quality pre-kindergarten program.

To watch the full event coverage, please visit: https://youtu.be/_NgZ91HP0kc

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This has been a long time coming. We started with Boston kids, who made a mixed delivery system a possibility, and then we moved to our preschool expansion grant where we were able to deepen our partnership, and today, thanks to the mayor, were able to invest in all of our four-year-olds across Boston. We.

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Talked about the importance of universal pre-kindergarten, the last five years we've added 750 pre-kindergarten seats are high quality, improving to close the achievement gap. Now we're going to be investing fifteen million dollars and a quality pre-kindergarten front. It's going to help us create an additional 750 high quality seeds at bps community within community-based organizations, and allow us to achieve our goal of universal pre-kindergarten for every four year older in our city,.