Mayor Bill de Blasio, right, visits the Inner Force Early Tots Childhood Learning Center, a community-based organization that's part of the pre-K program, as his wife Chirlane McCray shakes hands with Brooklyn borough President Eric Adams, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Thursday Sept. 4, 2014. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito is second from left. It is the first day of the mayor's ambitious expansion of early childhood education. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Theodore Parisienne, Pool)
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