Portland Schools Offer Four-Year-Old Program
The Portland Public Schools will begin a new program for four-year-olds on October 2 at Nathan Clifford Elementary School, 180 Falmouth Street. The program will serve several children with special needs as well as typically developing youngsters.
The program will meet Monday through Thursday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. (session one) and from 12:30 to 3 p.m. (session two). Enrollment will be limited to 14 children per session.
Parents will need to provide transportation but there will be no fees charged. Funding will come from grants, MaineCare billing and other sources. For more information, please call 874-8180.
September 29th, 2006 at 12:55 pm
Why is the School Dept competing with church and private nursery schools by offering a free program, open to all pre-schoolers age 4. It’s one thing to support those under-privileged that can’t afford private schools but its another thing for the city of portland to compete and take students already enrolled in private/church programs. I know of at least one church pre-school program that has already lost 4 students and stands to loose nearly $9000.00 this year in income because of this program.