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Cobb to shut down pre-k program
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The Cobb County School District announced Friday it is shutting down its pre-kindergarten program at the end of the school year citing lack of classroom space and costs not reimbursed by the state.
The program currently serves 519 students in 26 classrooms in 19 schools across the district. The school system, Georgia’s second largest, is transferring its pre-K program slots to the Georgia Department of Education for reassignment to private pre-school providers in Cobb.
A separate program serving special needs pre-K students in 39 of the district’s elementary schools will not be affected, school system officials said in a prepared statement. Those classes will continue.
Chief academic officer Diane Bradford said that while pre-K classes will no longer be available in Cobb schools, she encouraged parents to enroll their pre-schoolers in programs offered by private providers in the community. “There is tremendous value in exposing children to a learning environment before they begin kindergarten.”
Parents seeking pre-K classes for the 2007-08 school year were encouraged to search a directory of local providers on the Bright From the Start Web site at www.decal.state.ga.us or call 404-656-5957.
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