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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, and Langley are all out next year.[/quote]

Umm. Nope. You obviously have not looked at the actual amke of those schools.  Bunker Hill is a great school and had about half non head start families last year. But most of them jumped over to Mundo.  The most of the students at the schooland Prk program is certainly still in the head start targeted group. 
It is a good little school for the most part. But because of the way dc does funding they don't have as many resources as some other schools. However, I hope they and the other schools you mentioned continue to grow and thrive for the families attending. [/quote]

Unfortunately DCPS is choosing not to continue with Bunker Hill being a Head Start programming site for next year. The community needs assessment also did not support keeping Head Start at this school. The number of categorically eligible students was around 30% last year and even lower this year. It just didn’t make sense to keep it and DCPS had to make a difficult choice about which schools to remove from the program. It was a combination of student poverty data at the preK level, the community needs assessment, demographic forecasting and preK student enrollment. DCPS currently has 60 Title I schools receiving Head Start programming. Realistically this was a lot of sites for DCPS to handle so they chose to drastically reduce the number of sites. It makes perfect sense to reduce the number of sites from 60 to 38. Managing 38 schools is a lot easier than 60 schools. The ECE Division already had to cut 30% of their Central Office staff to pay for floater paraprofessionals for all of the 60 Title I schools to be in compliance with Head Start. The ECE instructional coaches serving the Title I schools each had 3 or 4 school assignments a piece this year. When you take all of these factors into consideration, DCPS really has no choice but to reduce the number of schools offering Head Start.[/quote]

Hey troll, does your boss know you are leaking all this stuff?[/quote]

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