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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the dual language schools and the schools with large numbers of immigrants should keep it. DCPS can surely work with schools like Bancroft to enroll more Head Start eligible kids. The only schools where it really makes sense to cut the program are below.

Ludlow Taylor
Van Ness
Payne
West
Garrison
Burroughs
Bunker Hill
Langdon
Langley
Amidon Bowen
Payne
Miner
JO Wilson
Tyler
Takoma
Whittier[/quote]

I would not take it from Langley.  PK4 is a lot less gentrified than PK3.  And you have to remember they have several separate classrooms for preschoolers with a lot of special needs.  Add those in and the numbers are way more at-risk.[/quote]

Special needs students are not technically considered at risk (don't get me started on that). However, there is a separate funding stream to provide them with additional support. The federal government to eliminate Head Start completely (not going to happen) and those kids would not lose funding.

As for being gentrified - it is the overall ECE population. So you would mix PK4 with PK3. Sounds like it on the bubble. 
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They are not automatically at-risk, but as it happens many of them are at-risk at Langley because they meet the criteria, and that means they count in the calculation.

PK3 at Langley is pretty gentrified, but the class size goes up for PK4 and again for K, so even before backfilling they are adding new kids.  Some are middle or high income, but overall it is a net increase in the proportion who are at-risk.  Langley may lose Head Start eventually, but not this year.   Eventually they will need a third K classroom and that will also bring more at-risk kids.  And there is some permanent affordable housing in the boundary including right across the street.  So it is hard to see Langley losing it for quite some time.   [/quote]

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