Comments on: City to expand pre-K offerings with new seats and a new school http://gothamschools.org/2012/09/24/city-to-expand-pre-k-offerings-with-new-seats-and-a-new-school/ Sat, 25 May 2013 11:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Michael M. (parent still) http://gothamschools.org/2012/09/24/city-to-expand-pre-k-offerings-with-new-seats-and-a-new-school/comment-page-1/#comment-377825 Michael M. (parent still) Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:52:00 +0000 http://gothamschools.org/?p=91896#comment-377825 Kudos on the move to more “full-day” pre-K spots. 

“Half-day” was just too small a fraction of a full WORK day to make it worthwhile to enough parents. 

But let’s be clear:  expanding the program by 4,000 seats, from 16,000 to 20,000, might be a “25% increase,” but that still represents less than half of a cohort.  “Universal” pre-K still seems a ways off.

(e.g. 1 million / 13 cohorts in a K-12 span = 77,000.  Give or take.  Vs 65,500 per tallying within the above article.)

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