“We need every child to have access to resources they need.”

City Councilor John Connolly at a “Conversation with the Boston Mayoral Candidates,” a forum held at the Boston Children’s Museum held on October 24, 2013

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“Many of them lost their educational opportunity in the first years of their lives; and now we’re playing catch up… I want full-day universal pre-k and kindergarten.”

State Representative Martin J. Walsh (D-Dorchester), at a “Conversation with the Boston Mayoral Candidates,” a forum held at the Boston Children’s Museum held on October 24, 2013

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“The focus is on the city’s kids tonight.”

Jon Keller, WBZ reporter, in a Tweet included in a Storify feature on the forum posted by the United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley