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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every ward should have universal pre-k3 and pre-k4 regardless of the income in the area. Some Higher income people are just “broke” at a higher level. Like other communities they have mortgages, car notes, and more, which might cost more than in some areas.  They deserve DCPS prekindergarten, too. Don’t hate because they might have a high income. Some high SES families that don’t live in Ward 3 have access to free pre-k and so should Ward 3. Also, without pre-k in Ward 3 schools, parents may take spots at other schools with no intention of staying. Quality Daycare is expensive [/quote]

That is totally do-able. It just means that the school boundaries and feeder patterns need to change: parts of Lafayette to Shepherd and Brightwood, Murch to West, Hyde-Addison to Francis-Stevens, etc.  Plus the end of Fillmore and to middle school at SWW and Adams. That wouldn't get to guaranteed PK WOTP, but changes like these could allow for a situation more like people see EOTP--where some schools waitlist in-bounds kids but the WLs move over the summers and there are nearby schools that take OOB kids. The tradeoff for this: some kids lose access to WoTP elementary schools for K-5, and more lose access to WOTP middle and high schools. Most WoTP families don't want to make that trade. If they did, they could move EOTP and probably have a bigger/cheaper place to live.

Other thing that would help: inserting an at-risk preference for all PK slots districtwide (or DCPS-wide, with charters allowed to do it), so the kids who would most benefit from PK get it. It could just put at-risk in front of each other category:

At risk IB with sib
IB with sib
At risk IB without sib
IB without sib
At Risk OOB with sib
OOB with Sib
At risk no preference
No preference

(I realize this leaves out proximity, sib enrolled v. admitted, and the different order for bilingual DCPS but you get the idea)

And if more day cares WOTP did like Communkids and took the DC subsidy for PK, that would open up a lot of PK slots outside of DCPS buildings.[/quote]

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