Santosuosso asks about Staten Island exclusion
Santosuosso asks why Staten Island was not included this year. Liss explains limited seats and the need for sufficient provider readiness, and notes they added 3K seats on Staten Island and plan to bring 2K next year.
Can you speak to the decision this year to not include Staten Island?
We were obviously limited with only 2,000 seats to where we could go.
And when selecting districts, our goal was to be able to serve as many children as possible in each of those districts so that we could really fully meet demand.
With Staten Island being one school district for the entire borough and with our relatively limited timeline to roll out 2K this year, we
wanted to make sure that we had sufficient provider readiness and felt we needed more time to be able to roll out to Staten Island in a way where we could really serve all families.
We also saw this year that we had continued unmet 3K demand on Staten Island, and that had been a real persistent challenge for families in certain parts of the island.
So in addition to our 2K expansion for this fall, we also added more than 2,000 new 3K seats across certain priority zip codes, which included significant parts of Staten Island.
And with that investment in capacity, we feel more ready to bring 2K to Staten Island next year.
Kara, could I just have one more question, and then I will get out of your hair?