Kindergarten age bill approved by state Senate, now heads to Assembly

06-03-2010

By Tracy Garcia/San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Proposed legislation that would require all incoming kindergartners be 5 years old by Sept. 1 cleared the state Senate on Wednesday and is now headed to the Assembly for consideration. The Kindergarten Readiness Bill, authored by state Sen. Pete Simitian, D-Palo Alto, would move the state's kindergarten-age cutoff date from the current Dec. 2 to Sept. 1. Simitian describes the bill as win-win for all because it would: keep younger kids from entering school before they're ready to handle it; and save the state $700 million annually because it would keep an extra 100,000 students with fall birthdays out of the public school system every year; and redirect those savings equally toward quality preschool programs and alleviating the state's budget shortfall. (more...)

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