School Board Adopts Transitional Kindergarten Plan, Interim Budget
Los Gatos Union School District trustees voted unanimously Tuesday evening to accept a transitional kindergarten program that will allow the new age requirement for kindergarten students to be phased-in over the next three years.
The Kindergarten Readiness Act of 2010, also known as California Senate Bill 1381, amended the state Education Code so that the cut-off date for kindergartners will change from December to September.
The bill established a transitional kindergarten program that begins during the 2012-13 school year.
Through the program, children would have to turn 5 years old by Nov. 1 in 2012, by Oct. 1 in 2013 and by Sept. 1 in 2014 when the cut-off date will stay in place until amended sometime in the future.
Los Gatos Union School District Superintendent Diana Abbati and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Bitsey Stark presented a program that would put children who turn 5 after Nov. 1 next year into a district-wide kindergarten class on one of the district’s four elementary school campuses.
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