| State |
Status/Date |
Level |
Summary |
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 RI | Signed into law 06/2012 | P-12 | Provides for the funding of up to four (4) districts for full-day kindergarten. The commissioner of elementary and secondary education determines which districts would receive these funds. Defines "full-day kindergarten" as a kindergarten program that operates a minimum of 5 1/2 hours or 330 minutes of actual school work, excluding lunch, recess periods, common planning time, pre- and post-school teacher time, study halls, homeroom periods, student passing time and any other time that is not actual instructional time. Requires districts receiving this funding to operate only full-day programs, not half-day. Requires the department of elementary and secondary education to report on the progress of the program annually by May 1st of each year.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText12/HouseText12/H8049.htm
Title: H.B. 8049 (S.B. 2534)
Source: http://www.rilin.state.ri.us
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| IN | Signed into law 03/2012 | P-12 | Permits augmentation of appropriations for full-day kindergarten. Changes the amount distributed per child.
Establishes the select commission on education to study: (1) the process of adoption and content of rules adopted by the Indiana state board of education concerning categories or designations of school improvement including the matrices used for the A-F designations; and (2) proposed rules, adopted rules, and policies of the department of education and the Indiana state board of education to implement the provisions of P.L.90-2011, concerning teacher evaluations and licensing. Makes changes to the process in which a school corporation may modify the department's model staff performance evaluation plan. Makes changes to the definition of a turnaround academy. http://www.in.gov/legislative/bills/2012/PDF/HE/HE1376.1.pdf
Title: H.B. 1376
Source: www.in.gov
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2011 | P-12 | The measure delays the requirement for the requirement for districts to provide full-day, free kindergarten until the 2013-14 school year. http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf/2011-12%20ENR/SB/SB260%20ENR.DOC
Title: S.B. 260
Source: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us
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| OH | Signed into law 11/2007 | P-12 | Permits school districts that are not eligible for state payments for all-day kindergarten to charge tuition on a sliding scale for all-day kindergarten classes. Requires the Department of Education to issue an annual report on tuition charged by school districts for all-day kindergarten. Requires the Department of Education, by April 30, 2008, to issue a report on fees charged by school districts for (1) classes or programs that are offered during the regular school day or after school and for which students earn credit or are assigned grades, (2) instructional materials, and (3) summer school.
Analysis and summary: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us/analyses127/h0190-rs-127.pdf
Title: H.B. 190 -- Multiple Components
Source: http://www.lsc.state.oh.us
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| MA | Issued 08/2007 | P-12
Postsec.
Community College | Establishes the Readiness Project to develop a plan to implement fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next ten years. The project will have three chairs appointed by the Governor.
The plan will include recommendations to:
(1) Deliver universal and high quality early education for three- and four-year-olds as well as Full-Day kindergarten;
(2) Expand time for teaching and learning in primary and secondary schools;
(3) Extend education an additional two years beyond secondary school to better prepare students for higher education, work and citizenship;
(4) Align curricula from pre-Kindergarten through high school, higher education and work force development, including with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math as well as other subjects and methods that enhance creativity and problem-solving skills;
(5) Structure and support a reasonable degree of school choice, including charter and pilot schools, so that all serve as complementary components of a comprehensive system; (6) Recruit, retain and develop strong educators and administrators at all levels;
(7) Streamline and strengthen teacher certification and licensing;
(8) Improve the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System and introduce additional appropriate standards and assessments to measure other aspects of students' academic development;
(9) Fund the education system adequately, equitably and reliably, including for students with special educational needs;
(10) Facilitate collaboration between and among the Commonwealth's public and private institutions of higher education;
(11) Strengthen the structure and clarify the mission of the institutions that comprise the University of Massachusetts system and all public higher education institutions in the Commonwealth;
(12) Implement an effective and efficient accountability system for students, instructors and administrators from pre-Kindergarten through higher education that enables authorities both to review performance and to target assistance where it is most needed; and
(13) Leverage information technology throughout the system to improve instruction, student acquisition of skills, administrative processes, and the quality of and access to data. implements fundamental and systemic reforms to public education in the Commonwealth over the next 10 years.
http://www.mass.gov/Agov3/docs/Executive%20Orders/executive_order_489.pdf
Title: Executive Order No. 489
Source: http://www.mass.gov
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| IN | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | From Center for Evaluation & Education Policy: Appropriates money for state agencies and makes other distributions. Specifies a school funding formula. Requires a study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools. Changes references from vocational education to career and technical education. Creates a prekindergarten pilot program. Increases tuition support by approximately 3.7% in FY2008 and 3.6% in FY2009. Funds the Early Literacy Intervention Grant and the Reading Diagnostic Assessment programs at the continued level of $3.7 million/year and $1 million/year, respectively. Increases textbook reimbursement from $19.9 million to $39.9 million. Funds Full-Day Kindergarten at $33.5 million in FY2008 and $58.5 million in FY2009 with a cap of $2,500 per FDK student. Non-English Speaking Program funds were increased by $6.2 million to $6.9 million/year. Gifted and Talented Program funds were increased by $7.18 million to a level of $12.78 million/year. Testing and Remediation monies were increased by $10 million to a total of $41 million/year, while GQE Remediation funds remained level at $4.9 million/year. Creates funding of up to $100,000/year for school consolidation studies that school corporations can apply directly to the IDOE to use in order to assess the feasibility of consolidation or merging services with another corporation. Funds the school finance studies conducted by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University at $140,000/year. Requires a comprehensive study of the efficiency and effectiveness of charter schools in Indiana and commissions the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy to complete the study. Keeps funding for summer school constant at $18.36 million/year. Funds education service centers at $2.32 million/year. Funds the Principals' Leadership Academy at $462,832/year. The Technology Grant Program was funded at $5 million for the biennium. Funds the School
Business Officials Academy at $150,000/year.
Title: H.B. 1001
Source: Center for Evaluation & Education Policy
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| MT | Signed into law 05/2007 | P-12 | Provides full-time Average Number Belonging funding for school districts that enroll students in full-time kindergarten. Provides start-up funding for districts transitioning from half-day to full-day programs. A kindergarten program must meet the state minimum aggregate hour requirements. A kindergarten program that is designated as a full-time program must allow a parent, guardian or other person who is responsible for the enrollment of a child in school to enroll the child half-time.
http://data.opi.mt.gov/bills/specsess/0507/billhtml/SB0002.htm
Title: S.B. 2A (Kindergarten)
Source: http://data.opi.mt.gov
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| ND | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, a full day of instruction consists of: (1) At least five and one-half hours for kindergarten and elementary students, during which time the students are required to be in attendance for the purpose of receiving curricular instruction. Previously, kindergarten not included in the full day definition.
http://www.legis.nd.gov/assembly/60-2007/bill-text/HAFK1400.pdf
Title: S.B. 2200 (kindergarten section)
Source: http://www.legis.nd.gov
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| WA | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Provides that, beginning with the 2007-08 school year, funding for voluntary all-day kindergarten programs shall be phased-in beginning with schools with the highest poverty levels, defined as those schools with the highest percentages of students qualifying for free and reduced-price lunch support in the prior school year. Once a school receives funding for the all-day kindergarten program, that school shall remain eligible for funding in subsequent school years regardless of changes in the school's percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches as long as other program requirements are fulfilled.
Provides that schools receiving all-day kindergarten program support shall agree to the following conditions: (1) Providing at least a one thousand-hour instructional program; (2) Providing a curriculum that offers a rich, varied set of experiences that assist students in: (a) developing initial skills in the academic areas of reading, mathematics, and writing; (b) developing a variety of communication skills; (c) providing experiences in science, social studies, arts, health and physical education, and a world language other than English; (d) acquiring large and small motor skills; (e) acquiring social and emotional skills including successful participation in learning activities as an individual and as part of a group; (f) establishing learning environments that are developmentally appropriate and promote creativity; and (g) learning through hands-on experiences; (3) Demonstrating strong connections and communication with early learning community providers; and (4) Participating in kindergarten program readiness activities with early learning providers and parents.
Authorizes four demonstration projects. Requires the Washington state institute for public policy to conduct an evaluation of the demonstration projects under this act. Student, staff, program, and parent data shall be collected using various instruments including surveys, program and activity descriptions, student performance measures, observations, and other processes.
http://www.leg.wa.gov/pub/billinfo/2007-08/Pdf/Bills/Session%20Law%202007/5841-S2.SL.pdf
Title: S.B. 5841
Source: http://www.leg.wa.gov/
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| NY | Signed into law 04/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes the commissioner to award grants to districts that operated half-day kindergarten programs in the 2006-2007 school year, and that will continue to operate such half-day programs in the 2007-2008 school year, to plan for conversion to full-day kindergartens only in the school year next following the school year in which the planning grant is received, but no later than the 2010-2011 school year. Directs the commissioner to prescribe the procedures and criteria for the award of such grants, which are to be available to districts to defray the additional costs for planning time, the cost of classroom materials, equipment, furniture and supplies not eligible for aid in specified other sections of statute, where such additional costs are incurred in planning for the facilities and staffing that will be needed for such conversion. Provides no district may receive more than one such planning grant.
Directs that $8,500,000 must be paid to the Yonkers City School District on an annual basis to provide additional funding for the costs of educational improvement plans required as a result of a court-ordered settlement in a school desegregation case to which the state was a party. Provides grant funds must be used exclusively for services and expenses incurred by the district to implement such educational improvement plans.
http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?bn=s2107
Title: S.B. 2107 - Part B, Section 38
Source: assembly.state.ny.us
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| UT | Signed into law 03/2007 | P-12 | Establishes a program, administered by the State Board of Education, through which school districts and charter schools may provide voluntary extended-day kindergarten, with certain funding priorities. http://le.utah.gov/~2007/bills/sbillint/sb0049s03.htm
Title: S.B. 49
Source: http://www.le.state.ut.us/
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| CO | Signed into law 02/2007 | P-12 | Authorizes a school district, upon voter approval, to impose an additional mill levy for purposes of funding the school district's excess full-day kindergarten costs. Allows the question submitted to the voters to also include a question of whether to impose an additional mill levy of a stated amount and limited duration to fund the capital construction needs associated with the school district's full-day kindergarten program.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics/Clics2007A/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/17AF271E6545AD6087257251007B9651?Open&file=026_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 26
Source: Colorado Legislature
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| KS | Signed into law 05/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes a district offering both half-day and full-day kindergarten to impose a fee for enrollment in full-day kindergarten, to cover that portion of the cost of providing full-day kindergarten not paid by the state. Clarifies that this does not require districts to offer or students to attend full-day kindergarten
Authorizes a district to expend amounts received from the at-risk pupil weighting to pay for the cost of providing full-day kindergarten to any
student attending full-day kindergarten whether or not such pupil is an at-risk pupil.
Bill: http://www.kslegislature.org/bills/2006/549.pdf
Conference Committee Report Brief: http://www.kslegislature.org/supplemental/2006/CCRB549.pdf
Title: S.B. 549 - Section 6, 14
Source: www.kslegislature.org
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| DE | Signed into law 04/2006 | P-12 | Requires school districts by the start of the 2008- 2009 school year, to offer any kindergarten-eligible child the option of attending full-day kindergarten if the child's parent or guardian chooses; provides that if a parent wants to send his or her child for only a half-day, the parent would be permitted to do so; becomes effective upon a specific appropriation by the General Assembly.
http://www.legis.state.de.us/LIS/lis143.nsf/vwLegislation/SB+251/$file/0041430100.doc?open
Title: S.B. 251
Source: Delaware Legislature
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| CO | Vetoed 03/2006 | P-12 | Authorizes of additional school district revenues to fund costs associated with full-day kindergarten programs. Districts that receive voter approval for additional revenue must: use evidence-based research demonstrating the types of programs and methods appropriate for full-day kindergarten; not limit parents to enrolling their children in half-day programs; and not serve children through a full-day kindergarten component of the district's preschool program.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics2006a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/602F9F4FC4AEF24C8725708A0068082D?Open&file=1005_enr.pdf
Title: H.B. 1005
Source: CO Legislative Web Site
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| NV | (H) APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. CHAPTER 3. 06/2005 | P-12 | Authorizes the Department of Education transfer from the State Distributive School Account 2 the sum of $9,330,000 for allocation to school districts to provide full-day kindergarten during the 2005-2007 biennium. The money must be used to provide full-day kindergarten in schools approved by the Department of Education.
http://leg.state.nv.us/73rd/bills/AB/AB4.pdf
Title: H.B. 4
Source: StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | New law establishing the Achieving Classroom Excellence Act of 2005. One new section establishes the Oklahoma Mathematics Improvement Program. The purpose is to improve student mastery of the Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS) for sixth-grade mathematics through Algebra I by enhancing sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade public school teachers' mastery of the subject matter content and process skills. Offers $1,000 stipends to teachers who pass the mathematicssubject area test and participate in approved professional development programs. Mathematics academies, customized higher education courses, small learning community lesson studies facilitated by a mathematics coach and utilizing the Internet and video technology are programs the state board may approve. Phases in full-day kindergarten requirements; requires three years of high school math and a college bound curriculum unless parents sign a statement opting out of the curriculum; implements end-of-instruction testing in eighth grade and high school, ultimately requiring students to pass tests to graduate; provides remediation to students who fail tests; establishes special math labs for middle school students and math training programs for middle school teachers; encourages high school seniors to take concurrent college courses with state paying tuition for six credit hours per semester; and addresses access for professional teaching organizations. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2005-06SB/sb982_enr.rtf
Title: S.B. 982
Source: http://www.lsb.state.ok.us/house/news7622.html
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| AZ | Signed into law 05/2005 | P-12 | Deletes certain provisions from 15-901.02 referring to full-day kindergarten and the joint legislative study committee on full-day kindergarten. Requires the department to conduct a comprehensive review of the research on full-day kindergarten instruction, including academic literature, academic studies and research and reviews conducted by public and private institutions. Requires the department to consider both research that supports and that does not support full-day kindergarten. Requires the review to emphasize longitudinal studies that assess the long-term academic impact of full-day kindergarten instruction. The report summarizing the department's findings and conclusions must be submitted to the governor and the legislature by December 1, 2005. States that the legislature shall not consider the appropriation of any additional state funds for full-day kindergarten until after the joint legislative budget committee has reviewed the aforementioned study. Specifies that state funds for full-day kindergarten instruction may not be provided for any student who is not five years old by September 1 of the school year in which the student is enrolled.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/47leg/1r/bills/sb1516s%2Epdf
Title: S.B. 1516 (Section 4)
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Revises certain language related to funding full-day kindergarten for students in a school receiving an "unsatisfactory" rating in the state accountability system. In implementing such a full-day kindergarten program, allows a local board to contract with any other public or private entity, including a child care center or a head start agency, as defined in statute. Provides that student in such a full-day kindergarten program must be counted as a full-day student.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB38088C4F083DE787256F8E00813440?Open&file=200_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 200 (Section 5-7)
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| CO | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Increases from 1,000 to 1,500 the number of children a district may apply to the department for authorization to serve through a full-day kindergarten component of the district's preschool program.
http://www.leg.state.co.us/Clics2005a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont3/FB38088C4F083DE787256F8E00813440?Open&file=200_enr.pdf
Title: S.B. 200 (Section 15)
Source: www.leg.state.co.us
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| AZ | Signed into law 04/2005 | P-12 | Requires every school district with a kindergarten program to offer half-day kindergarten programs aligned with the state board's academic standards. Requires a district that establishes a full-day kindergarten program to allow every parent of a kindergarten student to choose between a half-day or full-day kindergarten program.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/ars/15/00901-02.htm
Title: H.B. 2435
Source: www.azleg.state.az.us
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| LA | Signed into law 07/2004 | P-12 | Subject to appropriation, creates the Kindergarten Plus pilot program of classes, at least one in each of the state's eight regional service districts, of extended kindergarten for disadvantaged children from the 2005-06 through the 2007-08 school year. For purposes of this program, disadvantaged children are those eligible to participate in the federal free and reduced-cost lunch program. Every local board is invited to submit a proposal to the department to provide such a class in one of its schools. Should a large number of qualified proposals be submitted from one regional service district, the winning class must be selected by random drawing. Kindergarten Plus classes will offer full-day kindergarten starting two months before the kindergarten classes in the local district.
Requires the department, with state board approval, to establish rubrics of evaluation for use in every participating school which must be designed to provide clear and usable information regarding the effect the additional two months of kindergarten has on the students' academic achievement and overall school success when compared to similar students who enroll in the regularly provided kindergarten classes extended through their primary grades.
Based on an analysis of the evaluations of the effect of Kindergarten Plus classes, beginning in the 2008-2009 school year, the department may expand the number of schools participating in the pilot, continue the pilot limited to eight schools, or discontinue the Kindergarten Plus classes.
Requires annual reporting to the legislature on the progress, evaluations, the analysis of the evaluations, and department opinion on the expansion, continuation or discontinuation of Kindergarten Plus. http://www.legis.state.la.us/leg_docs/04RS/CVT9/OUT/0000LVK1.PDF
Title: S.B. 301
Source: www.legis.state.la.us
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| DE | Signed into law 06/2003 | P-12 | Creates a task force to examine early childhood education programs; develops a plan for implementation of universal pre-kindergarten and full day kindergarten. http://www.legis.state.de.us/Legislature.nsf/fsLIS?openframeset&Frame=Main&Src=/LIS/LIS142.NSF/Home!Openform
Title: H.J.R. 9
Source: Delaware Legislative Web site
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| MD | Signed into law 07/2002 | P-12 | Requires county boards to provide full-day kindergarten for all kindergarten students by 2007-08 school year. Each district's comprehensive master plan must identify the strategies that will be used in that county to ensure that all kindergarten students receive full-day kindergarten by the 2007-08 academic year. http://mlis.state.md.us/2002rs/bills/sb/sb0856e.rtf
Title: S.B. 856
Source: mlis.state.md.us
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| CA | Signed into law 07/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a pupil in a kindergarten in a school operating on a program of multitrack year-round scheduling to be kept in school on any day for 265 minutes of instruction, exclusive of recesses.
Title: A.B. 764
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| OK | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Every school district must provide and offer a full six-hour day of kindergarten free of tuition for every child residing in such district who attains the age of five (5) years on or before the first day of September during the school year such kindergarten is offered, provided that this duty may be satisfied by transferring kindergarten children to other school districts which will accept them and can provide kindergarten for such children, or by contracting for classroom space with a licensed public or licensed private child care provider based upon selection criteria established by the district. The requirement to offer a full six-hour day of kindergarten as provided for in this subsection shall not become effective until three (3) years after the provisions of this subsection are implemented as provided for in subsection G of this section. Implementation this section is to be delayed until the current expenditure per pupil in average daily attendance in public elementary and secondary schools in unadjusted dollars for the 1998-99 school year or any school year thereafter for Oklahoma, as reported by the National Center for Education Statistics annually in the Digest of Education Statistics, reaches at least ninety percent (90%) of the regional average expenditure for that same year, and funds are provided. http://www2.lsb.state.ok.us/2001-02HB/hb1499_enr.rtf
Title: H.B. 1499--Multiple Components
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| CO | Signed into law 05/2001 | P-12 | Authorizes a pilot program for school districts to offer full day kindergarten education programs at certain schools with low academic performance; makes an appropriation in connection therewith.
Title: S.B. 91
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 03/2001 | P-12 | Full-day kindergarten programs shall be phased in over a five-year period as follows with priority given to those school districts that serve children in schools with the highest proportion of students most in need based upon indicators in the at-risk [factor] index or that serve children by means of grade-level schools that serve an entire school district. (By 2004-2005, all kindergartens in New Mexico may be full-day programs.)
Title: H.B. 246
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NH | Signed into law 06/2000 | P-12 | Makes an appropriation from the Education Trust Fund to the Department of Education for the funding of public kindergarten programs; adjusts the Adequate Education Grant amount for the Town of Orange for the fiscal year 2000; adjusts the property tax warrant in the Town of Orange.
Title: S.B. 397
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NY | Signed into law 05/2000 | P-12 | Relates to state aid for school districts; funds a workforce education program in New York City; creates the Universal Prekindergarten Reserve Fund; provides State aid for conversion to full day kindergarten; relates to administration of the School Tax Relief Program; relates to 1997 and later assessment rolls; relates to tuition assistance program awards; relates to allowances for members of the Legislature, funding for the Legislature and legislative commissions.
Title: A.B. 9291
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NM | Signed into law 02/2000 | P-12 | Relates to full day kindergarten programs; provides funding.
Title: H.B. 211
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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| NJ | Signed into law 01/2000 | P-12 | Provides additional State aid to support full-day kindergarten programs in charter schools located in the Abbott districts.
Title: A.B. 2773
Source: Lexis-Nexis/StateNet
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