Pre-K for all? NYC’s universal preschool push leaves behind students with disabilities, report finds

The crowning achievement of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration is uncontested: universal pre-K.

The program guarantees free pre-K for 4-year-olds and has grown to include 3-year-olds in a dozen districts with plans to expand citywide.

But the city’s preschool programming has poorly served many students with disabilities, according to an analysis of 2019-2020 city data released Thursday by the nonprofit Advocates for Children.

The analysis is based on a first-of-its-kind trove of city data that is now required to be released annually under city law. It offers one of the most comprehensive windows yet into how well the city’s more than 30,000 preschool students with disabilities are being served, including patterns that correlate strongly with race and geography.

Read the full article here:
https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2022/1/20/22892383/pre-k-for-all-special-education-disability
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