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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it the case that most school systems don't have PK3 or PK4?   Seems you have to think of it as a luxury or should only be for at risk kids.  Tax dollars could be used to fund other parts of education process and those that can make other arrangements. [/quote]

DC has almost-universal PK3 and PK4 because the DCPS programs (except for in Ward 3) are funded by Head Start dollars. We wouldn't have it if we didn't have so many low-income families.[/quote]

Sometimes I think they should make pre-K income-based... I probably wouldn't qualify but that just seems more fair.[/quote]

It's moving that way already. At least a dozen schools serving some of the poorest parts of the city have auto acceptances for all IB PK3 and PK4 students. It's called the early access program http://dcps.dc.gov/page/pre-kindergarten-pk3-and-pk4[/quote]

And Ward 3 remains bereft of pk3 or any charter schools. Not for lack of demand, either.[/quote]

Ward 3 schools are already overloaded. If you want them to offer PK3, you have to make the boundaries smaller.  That could involve shifting Janney/Murch/Mann households to Hearst, Eaton, or Key to Hyde-Addison.  A lot more kids would be IB for SWW@F-S, and some kids would probably have to cross the park.  We saw how well suggestions like this went over during the boundary and assignment re-evaluation a few years ago.  Most parents in Ward 3, or at least the most outspoken ones, would rather pay for private PK or send their kids to an OOB/charter school for a couple years but then get 6 years at their current IB school.[/quote]

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