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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for this info!  While there is variation by year, it still looks like if there were attrition there would be spots because the number carry from one year to the next.[/quote]

Right, but they are not [u]required[/u] to backfill them. The PCSB got a verbal commitment from Diane Cottman to do it to the "extent possible," but who knows what the interim ED feels she must do. [/quote]

I understand that they might not.  I just don't understand this decision at all.  Why give kids only one shot to get in?  You lose at PK3 and....People on here talk all the time about how preschool is free and there is no guarantee.  Got it.  But why should it be the only entry point into many charters?  It's just unfortunate.[/quote]

I don't agree with this, but the past administrator would have said that it is very hard for kids to adjust to both the dual language and the mixed age classrooms beyond a certain age, and that for that reason they take very limited numbers (or sometimes no) children past PK3. If you can find the video of their testimony over the years to the PCSB you can hear it firsthand.

It would help them financially to do it -- since the funds that they lose for a vacated at spot at LAMB won't be made up. They don't just take that many more 3 yos because that too is disruptive to the balance of Pk3, Pk4 and K in each classroom.

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