After months of progress, and with a little over a week left before the start of the 2025-26 school year, Speckled Frog Play Care Center was notified that they are no longer in the running to serve as a universal pre-K option.

Executives with Speckled Frog said they’d spent two months working with the district, including director of pupil personnel services Lisajane Kappler, to be approved. They said they’d submitted the paperwork and were meant to appear on the agenda for the Board of Education’s meeting held on Tuesday, August 26. But in a letter to the media — and during public comment at that meeting — they claim they received a telephone call from Saugerties School (Saugerties Central School District) Superintendent Daniel Erceg on Sunday, August 24 saying the district no longer plan

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