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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the rationale for pk3 at Brent? If they keep it there, shouldn't all the schools have it?[/quote]

What is the rationale for PK3 at Maury?  At LT?  At the Cluster?  [b]At any DCPS?  PK3 was started under Rhee about a decade ago,[/b] in part, to make DCPS more attractive to a broader group of families by offering high-quality PK programs at neighborhood schools and the best way of drawing in families would be to open up slots to three-year olds.  It's one of the main reason a group of Capitol Hill families banded together and committed to Brent  I don't think there's any question that DCPs would love to have PK3 at all of its schools but space limitations are an unfortunate reality.  [/quote]

DCPS has had programs for 3 year olds for a lot more than 10 years. They used to call them "Headstart" but they were blended programs that functioned very much the same way that PK3 does now.[/quote]

Headstart is an entirely different, federally-funded program for lower income children.  That is why the policy of "universal" PK for all, regardless of income, made DCPS attractive to middle and upper-middle class families.[/quote]

To add to this-- Tommy Wells was the one that actually got the PreK 3 at Brent and other schools rolling when Brent Neighbors pointed out that DCPS needed to do it to compete with charter schools like Two Rivers which had been offering preK 3 since the beginning.  The question was, if Two Rivers can do it, why can't Brent, etc.?  Why is preK3 only provided to low income kids at DCPS but open to all regardless of income at charters?  [/quote]

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