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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many of the PK4 lottery applicants already have a space somewhere and just played the lottery to see if they get in somewhere they prefer. There is not a need to add 800 spaces for PK4.

As to the other points, it is not possible to offer PK3 in WOTP schools unless the boundaries shrink and some people are assigned to schools across the park (WOTP parents will not go for these solutions) or if there were massive construction projects at every WOTP school (DC will not pay for this, and it would require the reduction of green space which parents don't like either).

The same issue exists with the suggestion of guaranteed IB PK. Very few schools waitlist IB PK applicants. Those that do, have no space to take more PK kids (PK classes are small, so a room can accommodate more 3rd graders than PK3ers).

Doing more combined PK3/4 classes could get a couple more kids into certain schools. Clustering some schools or offering some more PK only options could help as well.

Since the areas with the fastest-growing population of young kids is Petworth and Brightwood,  what if Roosevelt had a wing for PK? That would make life easier for the HS and STAY students with kids, and there could be well-supervised vocational classes so the older students could graduate with CDA or other certifications. It would be a great way to use extra space at Roosevelt and bring kids into the feeder pattern from an early age. There could be IB preference for all kids IB for Roosevelt feeders. I don't live in Ward 4, but there seem to be a lot of active parents who could advocate for this.[/quote]

You wouldn't need to do that in the Roosevelt building - there's a separate school about a block away that was recently taken back from a failed charter school.

Since the neighborhood demand is currently a lot higher for PK than for the upper grades, it could be made into a neighborhood PK to pick up some of the extra demand.[/quote]

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