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Current enrollment numbers for early childhood education programs
1:34:37
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Council Member Rita Joseph requests current enrollment numbers for various early childhood education categories, comparing them to the previous year's figures. Monique Scales from the DOE provides detailed responses for most categories, with some information pending.
- Enrollment numbers are provided for 3K and Pre-K programs, including special education, EDY, and SDY categories
- Some categories show increases in enrollment, while others show decreases
- The data includes information on vacancies in both 3K and Pre-K programs
- Final application numbers for 3K and Pre-K after the February 28 deadline are still being tabulated
Rita Joseph
1:34:37
Okay, thank you.
1:34:41
So at the new the newest and least established DOE core programming early childhood sits at an important juncture.
1:34:48
The council and administration agreed to a number of improvements initiatives related to ECE as part of the fiscal twenty twenty five budget adoption, and the council is committed to continuing to help strengthen and stabilize the system.
1:35:02
The DOE sent to the council f y '25 terms and condition indicates the ECE enrollment is down this year compared to last year.
1:35:10
For the following categories, the c types list please list the current 2025 enrollment number whether and how much they are below or above the final enrollment number for twenty twenty three, twenty twenty four.
1:35:23
Three k special education.
Monique Scales
1:35:28
Three k special education.
1:35:31
These seats as of March 10, the enrollment, sorry, is 3,288.
1:35:39
Mhmm.
Rita Joseph
1:35:41
Three k EDY?
Monique Scales
1:35:43
Three k EDY, the current enrollment is 4,418, which is up a 57 from last year.
Rita Joseph
1:35:58
Special education, is it up or down?
Monique Scales
1:36:01
I'll have to get that information for you.
Rita Joseph
1:36:04
Three k S D Y.
Monique Scales
1:36:06
3 k s D y, the enrollment is 3,000 excuse me, thirty eight thousand three hundred twenty six and it is up 690¢ last year.
Rita Joseph
1:36:18
Three k total?
Monique Scales
1:36:20
Three k total is 44,653, which is an increase of 696 from last year.
Rita Joseph
1:36:29
Three k vacancies?
Monique Scales
1:36:31
The vacancies is 8,315, which is down a 31.
Rita Joseph
1:36:39
Pre k special education?
Monique Scales
1:36:41
Pre k special ed is 8,498, so this is students that are enrolled with IEP.
Rita Joseph
1:36:50
Is it our up or down for pre k?
Monique Scales
1:36:53
I'll I'll have to get that information for you as well.
Rita Joseph
1:36:55
Pre k EDY?
Monique Scales
1:36:58
Pre k EDY, the total is 2,601.
1:37:02
It's decreased a 41 from last year.
Rita Joseph
1:37:07
Pre k SDY?
Monique Scales
1:37:09
SDY is six 52,623, there's a decrease of 1,985.
Rita Joseph
1:37:19
Pre k total?
Monique Scales
1:37:22
Pre k total is 57,621, which is a decrease of 2,280 from since last year.
Rita Joseph
1:37:31
And your pre k vacancies?
Monique Scales
1:37:34
14,908 which is an increase of 486.
Rita Joseph
1:37:39
Do the enrollment and vacancy numbers you provided include children enrolled in family, child care centers?
Monique Scales
1:37:45
Yes, it does.
Rita Joseph
1:37:48
And what were the final application numbers for three k after February 28 deadline?
Daniel Weisberg
1:37:56
We're still tabulating those, Chair.
1:37:57
We'll get them to you just as just as soon as we have numbers that we we know are
Sebastian
1:38:01
solid.
1:38:02
Okay.
Rita Joseph
1:38:04
And and what about the pre k after application after February 28?
Daniel Weisberg
1:38:10
It's the same thing.
1:38:11
Same.
1:38:12
We're still tabulating chair, but we'll we'll definitely get those to you.