Hearn and DaSilva Pitch Full-Day Kindergarten Bill
The East Providence representatives are backing a bill that would provide full-day kindergarten funding for up to four districts.
Rep. Joy Hearn (D-Dist. 66, Barrington, East Providence) hopes to help close Rhode Island’s achievement gap in early education by backing a bill that would provide full-day kindergarten funds for four Rhode Island school districts, according to a press release from her office. The legislation would allow the commissioner of elementary and secondary education to determine which districts would receive the funds. The state education department would then report on the progress of the program by May 1 of each following year, reads the release. “A quality, full-day kindergarten program reaps benefits for all students,” Representative Hearn said. “We need Rhode Island’s students to be prepared to meet the expectations of an education that grows…
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6:43 am on Friday, April 6, 2012
Rep Silva, how about the union contracts that are strangling the taxpayer? Now that you have recognized strangling! more ›