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District officials cite staffing, licensing and allocation rules for 97-child pre-K wait list
Summary
Orange County Schools officials said they have 226 pre-K enrollees and 97 children on a tuition wait list; staffing certification, seat allocations for Head Start and NC Pre-K, and space constraints limit moving tuition students into vacant slots.
Orange County Schools told county commissioners that pre-K programs currently enroll 226 students and maintain a tuition wait list of 97 children, and officials said the wait list exists because eligibility rules, program seat allocations and staffing constraints prevent simply moving tuition students into vacant slots.
‘‘Our wait list currently is only parents that fall under the tuition category. So, no students that fall under Head Start, NC Pre-K, ECR subsidy are on our wait list,’’ said the district presenter (pre-K lead), explaining that each funding source or program…
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