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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WTF free private PK3 in Ward 3. That is so messed up. Sickening.[/quote]

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Free public school in rich neighborhoods is just fine starting at age 5 but somehow “sickening” at age 3? GMAFB.[/quote]

In a world with finite resources (and even DC has a limit on what it can spend) thinking through how much value there is to providing PK3 in a wealthy part of town when, IIUC,  PK3 is still not universal in less wealthy parts of town is certainly a fair question.  The reason we've added PK4 and now PK3 is there is a lot of evidence the earlier intervention leads to better outcomes for lower income kids - I'm not sure there are a lot of kids in Ward 3 who really benefit from this though it certainly saves their parents some money.

I also have real concerns about public monies going to a private pre-school.[/quote]

There are more preschools / day cares who receive this money -- it isn't just Communikids.

In exchange for taking these funds the daycares / preschools have to agree to more stringent staff training, inspections and curriculum standards. On the whole it gets higher quality early education to more students, most of whom are low-income and at-risk.

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I'm almost certain there isn't any means testing for these slots and given the location of Communikids and the transportation challenges a lot of lower income folks deal with it it strikes me as unlikely that a lot of these slots go to low income kids.

And now I wonder if meeting the more stringent requirements to get these funds won't result in higher costs for whoever is left paying tuition.  We barely made it through paying for our kids daycare (and we are UMC so not complaining but when we had 2 kids in daycare we were paying like 35K a year) and I hate to think public monies in this case will raise costs for folks who don't get in.[/quote]

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