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NYC Council head calls for mandatory kindergarten

NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn with Mayor

Photo credit: AP, 2011 | NYC City Council Speaker Christine Quinn with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is proposing making kindergarten mandatory for the city's 5-year-olds and instituting a loan program to help middle-income families pay for child care.

Quinn's office provided a preview of parts of her State of the City speech scheduled for Thursday.

Quinn says she's working with the state Legislature to get a law passed that would allow...

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