Archive for the ‘Public Preschool’ Category

New York Times: Parents Forfeit $20k Private School Tuition to Go to Public School for the Gifted

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

It sounds crazy, but it’s true. Parents in New York City whose children are accepted into a private school need to fork over the entire year’s tuition if they choose to go to a “gifted and talented” public school instead. Here’s an excerpt from the May 23, 2008 article in the New York Times by [...]

NYC now testing preschoolers in public pre-K

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

From the 9/29/09 NY Daily News article, “Parents Puzzled Why Developmental Screening for Pre-K Now Being Enforced,” by Meredith Kolodner: The city is adding the diaper set to the screening process for kids entering the school system – testing all 3- and 4-year- olds in public and subsidized pre-K programs. Developmental screening for prekindergartners has [...]