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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Amen. Montessori should be serving more low income families or it should be eliminated.[/quote]

Should ATS as well? Fun fact: no one who didn't attend aps montessori preschool got into Drew montessori this year. I'm not sure all the preschoolers got in, and they are first in line for admission. That means an income requirement is already baked into montessori admission. Aps montesorri preschool does have a 2/3 set aside for families making less than about 80k a year. It's not the same thing as farms, which basically means being on food stamps. But its better than nothing; no other option school has income requirements for admission, so why are you picking on the one that does? It's not like montessori is some bastion of privilege like virtually all NA neighborhood elementaries.[/quote]

Because when it moves and the program is disaggregated from the Drew neighborhood school, we will find that not only aren't you a Title 1 school, but you may not have any significant number of fr/l students, regardless of the 2/3 set aside. All the other option schools have VPI set-asides, which is the right thing to do in order to ensure low-income students have access to those opportunities. You don't have ANY set-aside for those students. NONE. You should have 1/3 for truly low income, especially for the kids who will live nearby in Gilliam Place and at The Wellington. You could get there by making the Pre-K years free for those whose families qualify for fr/l, and you could make up the difference by making another income bracket at the higher end of the sliding scale (doesn't it top out at like $200,000? That's pretty much every dual income household in North Arlington, so make another for $250,000 and another for $300,000 and up). I actually think the program is great and would benefit truly low-income kids, ESPECIALLY for Pre-K. Why can't we find a way to get them there as 3 year olds? That would be a very smart use of limited resources in closing the opportunity/achievement gap.[/quote]

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