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Pottsgrove pre-K Counts class at capacity; district weighing on-site option to meet staff-ratio rules
Summary
District staff reported the Pottsgrove pre-K Counts classroom is full at 20 students, described daily operations and staffing, and said bringing the program on-site could ease federally/state-mandated staff-to-child ratio requirements.
Terry Kohler, the district’s pre-K Counts presenter, told the Pottsgrove School District Board of School Directors that the district’s pre-K Counts classroom is at capacity with 20 students and that interest is growing for enrollment next year.
Kohler said the program operates five hours per day and provides breakfast, lunch and a snack through the Tri-County YWCA partnership. “Our classroom composition right now… our class is at capacity. We have 20 students,” Kohler said during the board meeting. She described daily activities focused on social-emotional skills and pre-writing: sign-in (“practice writing their name”), circle time, center-based learning,…
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