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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]40% of kids in DC shelters are under age 2.  Like, babies and 1 year olds.  Most kids in shelter are not elementary school aged.  The new shelters are probably going to have no more than about 100 kids, so about 1 or 2 per grade will likely enroll in the IB elementary school.

I live in an area where a shelter is planned and our school is already about 10% homeless and about 1/4 have IEPs (not necessarily an overlap but in many cases it is).  We need more support already, but this will only be a very small increase.  [/quote]

10:21 here.

That is definitely true right now, but given the huge percentage of kids under 2 and the degree to which charters are already saturated, I think this is an opportunity to plan for more children attending their IB schools at PK3. Today's 2-year-olds, depending on when their birthday is, are entering DCPS this year or the next. They will not oversaturate any specific school, but given the magnitude of the crisis, I don't think it's reasonable to plan that family homelessness is going to dramatically decrease in the next 2 years. I think it would be a better idea to plan for the schools who are receiving shelters sending some of their children - younger, older, whatever - to those schools and have systems in place to manage that. I know that at our school, we have already received contact from a shelter that is opening within our boundary about working together to provide the best transition for the kids. There is no reason that that cannot happen in an intentional way.[/quote]

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