![]() ![]() Now, with the late decision to go ahead with the project, she said Westbay is scrambling to get everything in place so it can open at the start of the academic year on Sept. Finamore said the application was intense and the work seemed for naught when the governor cut the funding. Westbay was one of about 20 agencies that applied for the demonstration project. The center is licensed for 80 children but operating with only 60. “The last year we’ve been struggling, if people don’t work they don’t need preschool,” Finamore said. The economy has served to diminish the demand for child day care services and, hence, preschool programs. ![]() Finding space for the added program won’t be a problem, however. ![]() “The phone has been ringing like crazy,” Finamore said Friday, as a carpenter piled sheets of plywood in an entrance corridor in preparation to decking an attic so as to give the center additional storage space. The Providence Center Imagine/Preschool at the Knight Campus of CCRI will run a second Warwick program. The center with facilities on Astral Street has been selected to run a program with 17 preschool students starting this fall. She said that investments in early childhood education would “save us dollars on the other end.”Īlthough only announced last Thursday, there has been significant interest in the demonstration with at least half a dozen inquiries from parents looking to enroll their children in the program, said Maryann Finamore, director of the Westbay Community Action Children’s Center. Gist, commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, said Friday in a telephone interview. “We know these programs make a difference,” Deborah A. Two Warwick pre-school centers are among seven in the state that will serve as demonstration projects that could set the trend statewide for pre-kindergarten programs. ![]()
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