The Great Salt Bay School Committee is forming a committee to research interest in and costs of a potential pre-kindergarten program either at Great Salt Bay Community School or throughout AOS 93.
The committee will determine the interest of the entire AOS 93 district, according to school committee Chairman William Thomas. If other schools in the district are not interested, the committee will determine costs and where a pre-K program would be located inside Great Salt Bay Community School.
According to Thomas, a state grant recently awarded funding to several school districts for pre-kindergarten programs, but AOS 93 was not one of the districts chosen.
The district was not eligible to apply for the grant, according to AOS 93 Business Manager Katherine Hunt.
With the grant money being sent out to accepted districts to establish pre-K programs, the school committee has recently become interested in finding out if establishing a pre-K program is feasible.
“We’re looking to identify willing participants to establish a committee,” Thomas said.
The school committee has not discussed which towns members of the committee should be from, according to Hunt.
“The discussion during the school committee meeting was very preliminary,” Hunt said.
The committee would need to conduct extensive research about costs and where best to house the program, and if the program would be district wide or just for GSB.
