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Committee Recommends Silas Wood to House South Huntington Universal Pre-K; Board to Decide June 17
Summary
A district committee recommended creating a centralized Universal Pre-K (UPK) at Silas Wood with staggered start times, before/after care and on-site principal; transportation details remain pending and the board is expected to vote June 17 after a transportation report June 4.
A committee charged with designing Universal Pre-K for the South Huntington Union Free School District recommended on Wednesday that the program be housed at the Silas Wood building, with staggered start and end times, before- and after-care and a dedicated building principal. The board of education will review the transportation committee’s findings on June 4 and is expected to consider a final vote at its June 17 meeting.
The UPK co-chairs, Doctor Hender and Doctor McCallion, told the board the recommendation followed a series of site visits and discussions that weighed classroom layout, bathroom access and traffic patterns. "When we looked at locations, we felt that the UPK was best served to be housed at Silas Wood," Doctor Hender said, citing the presence of bathrooms in all first-floor classrooms and the building’s prior use as a kindergarten center.
Committee members said the plan would start with classrooms on Silas Wood’s first floor — an initial…
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