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Board debates preschool placement as redesign could free classroom space
Summary
Trustees and staff discussed whether redesign would expand preschool availability; administration said preschool openings would depend on local demand and that Custer 2 could handle most early‑years needs in the near term.
Trustees raised preschool availability and how the proposed reconfiguration might create or remove classroom space for preschool programming. One board member said parents had the impression they could opt out of preschool at a given building; staff clarified that preschool placement depends on demand and classroom availability in each neighborhood.
Shaw noted any new preschool classrooms would be allocated where community need exists and that not every building would necessarily host preschool. "Custer 2 would handle the vast majority of the preschool that we would need for a period of time," a staff speaker said, and trustees asked for explicit documentation on where preschools would be placed under each configuration scenario.
Trustees asked staff to include preschool utilization scenarios in the forthcoming written plan and to clarify enrollment thresholds that would trigger adding a preschool classroom in a specific building.
