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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought that there were enough pre-k spaces in for all children.  I'm a little at a loss as to why 3 and 4 year olds would need to travel across town to schools for pre-k.

Pre-k is highly regulated throughout the the system and inspected.  The building might look different, but the kids have the same food and the same classroom resources. There are also great pre-k teachers working across all wards.

Also some of these schools have resources for the parents like GED courses.

Kids are not behind in pre-k.   Wrap around services need to be strengthened at each school - healthcare, adult education, job counseling. There's already early stages seats for students that can't get special services.

This isn’t just about pre-k. it is about getting at risk kids into higher performing schools all the way through.

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The achievement gap is present in preschool, actually.  It shows up clearly in the research and is glaringly obvious at my DD's school.

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Yes this.

I'm a PK teacher in the city and the achievement gap is already present the first day of PK3.[/quote]

I am too.  How is there a gap when achievement has yet to be measured?  I guess I'm using the wrong definition of "achievement gap."[/quote]

Take a walk in any lower income neighborhood and it will be obvious

You will find two primary scenarios

1.  People yelling and screaming and cussing in front of or at kids instead of talking to them
2.  Or people ignoring kids

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