Nolte: De Blasio’s NYC Socialist Preschool Scheme Wasted $100M — and Counting — on Empty Buildings

Former Democrat New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio’s socialist push to offer free universal child care resulted in dozens of empty buildings and a $100 million price tag — so far.

Five years after de Blasio limped out of office, the “city is still footing the rent and utility bills for the 28 facilities — a $99.3 million-and-counting boondoggle blamed on the ‘terrible execution’ of … de Blasio’s ambitious universal preschool expansion,” the New York Post reports.

“The de Blasio-era scramble to construct 47 ‘initiative projects’ for the then-mayor’s ‘3-K For All’ pet program — giving free full-day care for 3-year-olds — resulted in the slew of ‘phantom’ preschools that remain devoid of students,” adds the Post report.

Many of the locations don’t have enough students to justify a preschool, even if it were to open up. One 3-K location in Queens cost taxpayers $10.8 million but was located in