New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, center, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, talk with a teacher, Tracey Avery, and her pre-kindergarten pupils Jahniel Dunkley, Anya Neagle and Kakari James at the Catherine Corry Academy in the Saint Francis of Assisi School, Thursday, March 6, 2014, in New York. In the background from left are Dr. Timothy McNiff, School superintendent for the New York Archdiocese. . Dolan said that the 1,700 new pre-k seats that de Blasio is proposing would be found between the Archdiocese of New York and the Archdiocese of Brooklyn and children of all faiths would be admitted. (AP Photo/New York Times, Todd Heisler, Pool)