Tackling the problem of nomad children will require the same intensive, citywide effort.
The coalition's efforts are being matched by a citywide effort to register 100,000 new Jewish voters, he said.
His prime job will be to coordinate the Dinkins campaign's citywide political efforts with its more local concerns, Mr. Lynch said.
Only a citywide effort can achieve that.
The new truancy plan would represent the first coordinated citywide effort in decades.
The airport testing was part of a weeklong citywide undercover effort by the commission.
Some Democratic officials have suggested that the group will spend about $500,000 on the campaign, which is not considered a large sum for a citywide organizing effort.
He said the citywide effort was the equivalent of wiping clean 280 football fields.
The mayor's director of communications, William Cunningham, said yesterday that the brochure was part of a "comprehensive and citywide" effort to educate voters.
"This is a citywide effort," she said.