BILL TO RAISE KINDERGARTEN AGE WITHERS IN COMMITTEE.Byline: Daily News A bill that would make 5-year-olds born after Sept. 1 wait a year to enter kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be was killed Thursday Thursday: see week. by the Assembly Education Committee, a defeat for author George Runner George C. Runner, Jr. (born March 25 1952 in Scotia, New York) is a Republican California State Senator, who represents the 17th Senate District, which includes portions of Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County and Ventura County. , who said younger children are at a disadvantage in the classroom. Committee chairwoman Kerri Mazzoni, D-San Rafael, moved the Palmdale Republican's bill to an interim study for further analysis in January. Runner was angered by the move, claiming Democrats sabotaged the bipartisan bill. Assembly Bill 85 would have changed the cutoff date for children entering kindergarten, requiring them to turn 5 by Sept. 1 rather than the current Dec. 2. Runner, a private school administrator, said experts believe California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). students are at a disadvantage because, on average, they start school younger than most of their peers nationwide. Critics said the age differential often dissipates in a few years and noted that children benefit from the stimulus stimulus /stim·u·lus/ (stim´u-lus) pl. stim´uli [L.] any agent, act, or influence which produces functional or trophic reaction in a receptor or an irritable tissue. of school rather than staying home another year. The measure also would have saved the state about $8 billion, which would have been applied to reducing class sizes. |
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