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Vol. 32, Issue 15 QUEENS/LONG ISLAND/BRONX/MANHATTAN April 9-15, 2021
Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter greets students arriving at Phyl’s Academy, Wednesday,
March 24, 2021, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Beginning in September the
city’s public schools, which currently serve 23,500 three-year-olds, will be adding an
additional 16,500 kids to the 3K program. Associated Press/Mark Lennihan,fi le
By Nelson A. King
Mayor Bill de Blasio and
Schools Chancellor Meisha
Porter have announced
that, in partnership with the
City Council, 3-K for All will
expand to the remaining 16
community school districts
in the 2021-22 school year –
bringing free, full-day, highquality
3-K to up to 16,500
more three-year-olds across
New York City.
By this fall, de Blasio said
the city will support about
40,000 3-K seats across all 32
community school districts.
In addition to expanding
to School Districts 1, 12,
14, and 29 this fall as previously
announced, the city
will expand to offer 3-K to as
many families as possible in
the remaining sixteen school
districts: 2, 3, 10, 11, 13, 15,
17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26,
28 and 30.
The mayor said 3-K is
already offered to every threeyear
old in School Districts 4,
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 16, 19, 23, 27, 31
and 32.
“3-K has been invaluable
for so many kids and working
families across our city,” he
Continued on Page 12
By Bert Wilkinson
As the shortened work week
began, people in the Caribbean
were greeted with the news
that current Caribbean Community
Chairman and Trinidadian
Prime Minister, Keith
Rowley had tested positive for
the COVID-19 virus and his
diagnosis has forced authorities
there to scramble to contact
trace and test dozens of
people with whom he might
have been in contact with in
recent days.
Rowley’s announcement
that he will remain in self isolation
in sister isle, Tobago
where he was holidaying until
he recovers, means that he is
now the third regional head of
government after Prime Minister,
John Brecino of Belize
and President, Chan Santokhi
of Suriname to have fallen victim
in the past four months to
the pandemic despite taking
all the necessary precautions
and perennially urging citizens
to comply with preventative
rules.
Rowley, 71, said he first started
exhibiting flu-like symptoms
Continued on Page 12
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