New York City’s free preschool program is a national model, embraced by parents and praised for its high quality. But a year into a new mayoral administration, the influential initiative faces challenges that may threaten its standing and undermine its future.
The problems are so severe that the program, which won accolades from experts and attracted visits from leaders of other cities hoping to copy it, could lose more than $70 million in Head Start funding and suffer a decline in standards, according to interviews with more than two dozen current and former employees of the Education Department’s Division of Early Childhood Education.
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