Presentation Provides Details For All-Day Kindergarten

Specific details were provided at a recent Board of Education meeting and the attached PDF files shows the presentation.

Some of the highlights of the presentation were as follows:

According to the report: "The Rocky Hill Public Schools’ Full Day Kindergarten Program will establish a strong foundation for learning in the early years in a safe and caring environment that promotes not only the cognitive and academic development of all children, but also their physical, social and emotional development."

The benefits of all-day kindergarten:

• Contributes to increased school readiness
• Leads to higher academic achievement
• Improves student attendance
• Supports literacy and language development
• Benefits children socially and emotionally
• Decreases costs by reducing retention and remediation rates

Approximately 73 school districts currently provide full-day kindergarten to all of their students. Rocky Hill is in DRG D: The following statistics come from schools in DRG D:

• 13/24 districts have full-day kindergarten
• 4/24 district have partial full-day kindergarten programs
• 2/24 districts are working on implementing for the 2013-2014 school year
• 5/24 districts in DRG D (including Rocky Hill) are without a full-day kindergarten program.

Additional staffing with benefits with benfits will cost $105,000 but there is potential for savings in additional areas such as transportation and tuition costs.