The reason that it was at a core part of my campaign, though, is any mayor with an agenda that is as ambitious as the crisis in front of them will require state partnership because The city is effectively a creature of the state, especially after the 1970s fiscal crisis. So one of the most impressive achie in city politics in the last few decades was the creation of universal pre k. (28:22–28:28)
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