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Concord Public Schools is considering a move to some version of a full-day and/or full-week kindergarten.

Please sign this petition if you are:

* A parent who would rather have the option of providing for your kindergartener in the afternoon;

* A parent who would welcome a full-day kindergarten for your child, but who also wishes other parents to have the option of half-days for their children, or;

* A Concord resident who believes that it will strengthen the Town and its Schools to provide this flexibility to parents.

In signing this petition, I affirm my support of those families who want to retain the option of a dedicated, fully-supported half-day kindergarten program in the Concord elementary schools.

Further, I urge the Concord Public School system to provide the community and School Committee with an array of kindergarten options, including a dedicated, fully-supported half-day program for parents who feel this is the best option for their children.

Please only sign this petition if you are resident of Concord, MA. Thank you.



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Note 2: Please only sign the petition for yourself. If your spouse would like to sign too, please have her/him sign for themselves. Thanks.

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Please indicate your school district if you presently have or will have children attending CPS kindergarten:  
  Alcott
  Thoreau
  Willard
Would you prefer half-day kindergarten for your children?:  
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Petition sponsor

Concord Parents for Kindergarten Options

 

Links

----FROM THE ORGANIZERS----
Introduction and Background, written by the petition organizers: http://handyboard.com/pers/All...

Email the petition organizers with any questions, comments, or concerns: concordk@gmail.com

Open letter from Fred Martin to Asst. Supt. Diana Rigby and the School Committee, http://handyboard.com/pers/Fre...

Open letter from Wanda Gleason to the Concord School Committee, http://handyboard.com/pers/gle...


----PUBLIC REFERENCE INFO----
Dec 13, 2007 Concord Journal article, http://www.wickedlocal.com/con...

October 23, 2007 memo prepared by Asst. Superindent Diana Rigby, describing plan to create extended kindergarten time, http://thoreau.colonial.net/Te...

Rigby's memo with background documentation, including budget analysis, practices of neighboring towns, and lit review contributed by Weston public schools, http://colonial.net/curriculum...

November 14, 2007 article regarding school planning published in the Concord Journal, http://www.wickedlocal.com/con...

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