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Issues with filling extended day/extended year seats for three-k and pre-k
2:00:52
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Council Member Restler raises concerns about the low fill rates for extended day/extended year seats in both three-k and pre-k programs.
- Restler points out that only about 50% of extended day/extended year seats are being filled for both three-k and pre-k
- He emphasizes the importance of these seats for working families
- DOE officials explain that some communities are oversaturated with these seats
- They note that eligibility requirements and changing community demographics contribute to the low fill rates
Lincoln Restler
2:00:52
Getting real time updates during the school year for how we're planning for next year would be very helpful.
2:00:57
You know, we're still failing to fill the extended day extended year seats.
2:01:00
Right?
2:01:00
So in three k, you cut almost 10 of the three k extended day extended year seats, eight and a half percent.
2:01:06
And still we're only filling 50% of those seats.
2:01:10
Why?
2:01:10
And in pre k, we're filling just about let me get my make sure I get the right number.
2:01:15
We're filling similarly 50% of those seats for pre k, for extended day extended year seats.
2:01:23
You added 2,000 pre k extended day year seats.
2:01:27
These are the best seats.
2:01:28
Right?
2:01:28
You have a working family.
2:01:30
That's it.
2:01:31
Right?
2:01:31
That's a full day.
2:01:32
You're able to take your child there.
2:01:34
It's year round, why are we failing to fill these seats?
Daniel Weisberg
2:01:38
You want to take it?
Jeff Klein
2:01:39
Yeah, so we recognize that there's over saturation in some communities and EDY seats in particular.
2:01:45
But communities are changing and those are means tested seats.
2:01:50
So those are eligibility required low income seats and as communities around them change, we're finding that less folks are eligible, right, to avail themselves of those seats.
2:02:03
So that's one of the reasons why we have over saturation.
2:02:05
One of our
Lincoln Restler
2:02:06
commitments that gentrify and that it's harder to reach families at certain levels in certain neighborhoods.