Excellence without equity: Community-based pre-Ks feel shortchanged by DOE
Pre-K for all? Not so, say a group of teachers and administrators who allege that the city shorts the programs run by community-based organizations — especially compared with the generosity it shows toward similar programs run inside public schools.
Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, who serves on the State Assembly Education Committee, concurs. To show her support for the CBOs, she held a press conference addressing a gym full of school administrators, teachers, parents and CBO providers at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Preschool on April 5.
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