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Simitian now favors ‘junior’ kindergarten
- 07-21-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Sen. Joseph Simitian has sided with early childhood advocates over budget hawks in the debate over his bill to change the start date for kindergarten. He now has to persuade the Assembly Appropriations Committee to go along with a new version of his bill, creating a “junior” kindergarten for some 4-year-olds. Simitian’s SB 1381 would move up the start date of kindergarten so that students would have to turn five by Sept. 1, instead of Dec. 2. The effect, excluding kindergarten for 4-year-olds, has long been favored by most educators and child development experts, who say, with substantial evidence, that most 4-year-olds are neither emotionally nor developmentally ready for kindergarten. (more...)
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