In New York it was educational needs, after-school learning and computers.

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The warning comes after the Pre-School Learning Alliance condemned the planned changes at a conference on childcare.

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In seven and a half years, he united education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening over 100 new schools, expanding after-school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public-private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

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You guys deserve a lot of congratulations. (Applause.) We appreciate you. (Applause.) Progress has also been possible thanks to math and science coaches, and extra learning time in after-school, and Saturday school, and summer school.

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They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.

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