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Paddock Early Childhood Center highlights rapid enrollment growth and full-inclusion preschool
Summary
Jessie Kishiyama, executive director of Paddock Early Childhood Center, told the Milan Area Schools board the program has expanded enrollment and classrooms since Michigan’s universal 4-year-old preschool changes and that the district now emphasizes full inclusion for preschool special education.
At the Milan Area Schools board meeting, Jessie Kishiyama, executive director of Paddock Early Childhood Center (PECC), described rapid growth in the district’s early-childhood programs and urged the board and community to help with recruitment. “We have 170 early childhood students,” Kishiyama said, and noted the district now operates a birth-to-first-grade continuum that includes infant/toddler care, tuition-based preschool, a no-cost GSRP 4-year-old preschool and before/after-school care.
Kishiyama told the board that universal preschool in Michigan — which…
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