The city is spending big bucks to ensure it doesn’t botch the rollout of universal prekindergarten.
More than 100 Education Department staffers are revisiting all community-based organizations that will offer pre-K in September — roughly 1,100 sites.
“We are going out there to make sure they have everything they need to open,” said Stacey Gillett, the Education Department’s executive director for strategy and sustainability.
Also, the city agreed to a $1.7 million contract with Accenture, which was involved in the design of the 311 call center. The consulting firm is tasked with making sure roughly a dozen city agencies involved in the $300 million expansion are using the same data and communicating with one another.
The company’s contract isn’t expected to be signed until later this month, but it’s been working since April, an indication of the city’s urgency. “It’s really been essential to rigorously assess every site and monitor every detail,” a mayoral spokesman said.
