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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Housing prices in SE/NE are now just as high (maybe higher depending on area- you now see $1 million places in Trinidad) as upper NW and yet they have a lot more DCPS pk and charters to choose from, or at least lottery into and cut commute times. It's NE/SE affluent families who are freaking out about their lottery ranks on this message board and hiring consultants to navigate the system and then jumping ship to private or moving when it doesn't magically work out for them. These families who moved to these neighborhoods for affordability as young couples 5-10 years ago may have moved out sooner when they had kids, opening up more housing supply, but for these school options. So while the program was meant to help lower income families and neighborhoods- the schools are now serving a higher socioeconomic demographic. Maybe it has helped the system overall improve by keeping higher income families in DC, there are many facets to the gentrification debate. But these areas have already or are currently gentrifying and lower income families can no longer afford to live in many of these neighborhoods. Facts. [/quote]

Expansion of PK3 in DC had two goals.

1) Help close the gap between poor kids and well-prepared kids. Research from Pew and others consistently shows that a dollar invested in high-quality preschool has a greater educational benefit ROI than a dollar invested at any other point in the education system.

2) Get parents of all income levels to enroll in under-enrolled DCPS schools so DCPS would stop losing so much 'market share' to charters and private schools.

That's it. The schools without Pk3 were not, and are NOT under-enrolled. They truly do NOT have space for PK3.

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