Movement on Janney waitlist

[Anonymous]

What are "inclusion kids"

[Anonymous]

What happens with Pre-K is that schools are required to hold a couple Pre-K spots for placement of children from the Early Stages program (essentially a pre-school special education program as I understand it). I think they hold one spot per Pre-K classroom. Come October, if Early Stages doesn't fill the spots, DCPS releases them and the school can fill them off the wait list. I don't know if the school is obligated to fill them or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What happens with Pre-K is that schools are required to hold a couple Pre-K spots for placement of children from the Early Stages program (essentially a pre-school special education program as I understand it). I think they hold one spot per Pre-K classroom. Come October, if Early Stages doesn't fill the spots, DCPS releases them and the school can fill them off the wait list. I don't know if the school is obligated to fill them or not.

your understanding is not correct:
Early Stages is a program for any child with delays and exists to provide appropriate services to help address those delays. You probably know a child with speech delays, or a child with autism, or possibly a child who is confined to a wheelchair.

These children receive services through the public schools and each elementary school puts aside spots each year b/c they do not know how many children are inbounds who are receiving or will be identifiec as qualifying for services through Early Stages. These children are guaranteed spots in a DCPS that can support their learning needs - so for these children, they do not need to win the PreK 4 lottery to get the services that are required by law to be provided to them.

If you think this is what you meant by special education - yeah - your right.