Governor Dannel P. Malloy and Commissioner of Education Dianna R. Wentzell today visited classrooms in Bristol and Southington, highlighting the importance and benefits of full-day kindergarten for Connecticut's five-year-old learners, approximately 2,000 of whom do not have access to full day instruction or roughly 5.5 percent.
"By depriving thousands of children of full-day kindergarten, we are going backwards. It's time we act now to make full-day kindergarten universal in Connecticut so that we can make students' lives brighter tomorrow," Governor Malloy said. "This is a commonsense issue, and one that we should take action on now. It will yield innumerable benefits in the long-run. It's simply counterintuitive for some children to attend full-day pre-K, yet have others be denied full-day kindergarten. Extended learning time works and I'm a believer in doing what works. Within two years, every kindergartener should have access to a full-day of learning."
For more information, please visit Governor Malloy's website: http://www.governor.ct.gov/malloy/cwp/view.asp?a=4010&Q=565596
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