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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is no way PK3 classrooms go away, from any of these schools. Some budget decisions will have to be made but nobody is taking that political poison pill. [/quote]

It just doesn’t make sense for schools with high numbers of affluent PK students to have PK3 anymore. PK 3 was originally implemented to serve economically disadvantaged children. Affluent children do not benefit from PK3 and it should therefore be eliminated from schools that may no longer offer Head Start. Head Start was doing DCPS a favor by allowing them to continue to serve schools with low percetanges of Head Start eligible. It makes no sense for a school with 25 Head Start eligible kids out of 110 PK kids to receive Head Start support.
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PK3 was not "originally implemented to serve economically disadvantaged children."  If this were so, it would only be open to these kids, and DCPS would save a lot of money.  PK3 helps all children and working parents.  In fact, DC goes further and guarantees PK3 to everyone, regardless of income, they just don't guarantee it at the neighborhood school.

The backlash on DCUM against middle and upper income parents attending PK3 is almost comical.  It wasn't long ago that DC was begging middle income parents to attend public schools.  PK3 brought these families into DCPS more than any other policy or demographic change, and many of those families choose to stay into K and beyond.  PK3 has been a massive win for everyone, of all income levels.  It's one of those rare policies that all sides approve.  After years of steeply declining enrollment, there's a huge population boom at certain schools.  The reason you see PK3 at some schools and not others is solely based on available space.  At the most popular schools, there just isn't room.  DCPS will address this, but it falls into the "good problem to have" category.[/quote]

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