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Discrepancies in early childhood education enrollment numbers across reports
2:08:16
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Council Member Rita Joseph questions the Department of Education about discrepancies in early childhood education enrollment numbers across different reports. The DOE officials acknowledge the discrepancies and promise to investigate the reasons for the fluctuations.
- Enrollment numbers differ between the PMPMR, MMR, and council's term and conditions reports
- DOE officials suggest the differences might be due to different reporting time windows
- The department commits to providing a detailed explanation of the discrepancies to the council
Rita Joseph
2:08:16
We've noticed that some variants when comparing the e c e enrollment capacity and vacancy across the PMPMR and the MMR and the council's term and conditions.
2:08:26
For example, the term and condition number which were as of the January show the total combined three k and pre k enrollment for non special education seats at the district level as 91,355, where as the PMMR reflected at the October showed a combined total number of these seats at 94,855.
2:08:47
Did enrollment decrease from October to January?
2:08:50
And could you explain why these numbers may fluctuate across the report?
Daniel Weisberg
2:08:56
We'll have to look into that.
2:08:58
I apologize here.
2:08:59
We don't we'll look very specifically at the timeline for those, what window they're looking at.
2:09:05
I don't believe that that's capturing actual trends.
2:09:08
I think it's just a timing window, but we'll get you an answer by the end of
Gale A. Brewer
2:09:11
the Yeah.
Rita Joseph
2:09:11
You look at the timeline to see where was an increase and where was the decrease, and you'll share that with the council.
Mark Rampersant
2:09:16
Yes, sure.