Joe Lhota, the former Giuliani administration First Deputy Mayor who was flogged as the Republican candidate for Mayor against Bill de Blasio in 2013, gave his old foe high marks on his pre-kindergarten program and his handling of the union-contract mess he inherited from Michael Bloomberg, but said the lack of diverse views among his staff had compounded his problems in dealing with the police late last year.
“Yeah, the trains are running on time,” the former head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told NY1 Inside City Hall anchor Errol Louis during a March 4 interview, referring to issues like the labor contracts. “I think what he did in universal pre-k was extraordinary” in having 53,000 students enrolled less than six months after the state authorized the funding for the expanded initiative.
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