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 [...]
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New York Times: Parents Forfeit $20k Private School Tuition to Go to Public School for the Gifted
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010NYC now testing preschoolers in public pre-K
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009From 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 [...]