Applicants are flooding the school system to snare one of 1,000 teaching slots that will open in September when all-day pre-kindergarten classes expand around the city, Mayor de Blasio said Tuesday.
“We’ll have a pool of qualified, interested applicants — as many as 7,000 to chose from as we build out this system,” the mayor said.
De Blasio also announced a $6.7 million partnership with City University and its Early Childhood Professional Development Institute to help 400 applicants get their pre-K teaching certification.
The preparations come as state lawmakers are close to negotiating a budget that could allocate as much as $540 million a year for full-day pre-K in New York City.