The two batted around an idea: What if every child in the city could attend pre-K? De Blasio and his wife, Chirlane McCray, had faced the lack of pre-K schooling firsthand, struggling to find care ...

“If we’re out traveling and Diyan sees a new word he will try to read it out loud — and then say to me, ‘Hey, Mom, that line says this!’” said his mother, Anju Thapaliya. “Then he reads it back to me.

Universal pre-K has long been thought to boost children's lives and futures, but a new study suggests parents could also reap the benefits of free and early education for their kids. Economists ...