Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Superintendent Tom Williams will meet with parents interested in half day kindergarten on Friday, March 9.
In December of last year, the Kirkwood Board of Education approved the implementation of free, full-day kindergarten throughout the district. At the time, some parents said they were concerned half day kindergarten would disappear. Tom Williams, superintendent of schools, then told parents that half day kindergarten would continue to be offered as long as there was a demand for it. (Read previous story: Kirkwood Board of Education Approves Full-Day, Tuition-Free Kindergarten) “We want to offer the half-day program for as long as it is feasible,” Williams said in a previous story. “ It’s a parent choice, I believe. We want parents to have the choice of a full-day program or a half-day program. In reality, it becomes a supply and demand …
Monday, October 3, 2011
Preschool parents will be watching to see how and when the district will implement tuition-free full-day kindergarten.
Annelise Knuckles will be ready for kindergarten next year; the only question is what it will cost her parents. Her parents feel strongly that Annelise would benefit from full-day kindergarten, but as it stands now in Kirkwood, that would cost them $3,600. “I feel that full-day kindergarten is important for children to set the groundwork for school,” said her mom, Jennifer Knuckles of Glendale. “I just want it to be available for everyone. People shouldn’t have to choose based on price.” While all but a handful of districts in the state have moved to free full-day kindergarten, the Kirkwood School District still charges tuition for full-day kindergarten while offering half-day kindergarten for free. The issue is on the agenda tonight at a …
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
School board member Heidi Meckes tells parents tuition-free, full-day kindergarten is the goal.
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Kirkwood School Board is committed to offering free full-day kindergarten to all district children, but the timetable for that has not been set. That’s the message school board member Heidi Meckes brought to the Kirkwood Early Childhood Center PTO meeting on Wednesday night. “We are committed to this. It’s just a matter of how we can get this done and when,” Meckes said. Currently, the Kirkwood School District offers free half-day kindergarten and tuition-based, full-day kindergarten. But Meckes said research showed students who attended full-day kindergarten were better prepared academically. She said the curriculum for both full and half-day kindergarten was the same, but it was more difficult to cover the material for half-day …
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Dan L Sullivan
3:54 pm on Thursday, March 8, 2012
I hope someone will ask what will happen if a child enrolled in a full day program shows a lack of readiness and misses afternoons frequently until ready. more ›