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california Senate - Jobs & The Economy
SB-767 (2023-2024)
Elementary education: kindergarten
District 22 - Senator Rubio
Purpose
California has seen a significant drop in student enrollment in recent years with a majority of the decline stemming from children who missed kindergarten. While California law requires everyone between six and eighteen years ago to attend school, it does not specify children must attend kindergarten. This is an important clarification at a time when the state has implemented a new grade level through the expansion of universal Transitional Kindergarten for all four-year old’s.
In order to better prepare a child's learning skills, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a public elementary school.
California has seen a significant drop in student enrollment in recent years with a majority of the decline stemming from children who missed kindergarten. While California law requires everyone between six and eighteen years ago to attend school, it does not specify children must attend kindergarten. This is an important clarification at a time when the state has implemented a new grade level through the expansion of universal Transitional Kindergarten for all four-year old’s.
In order to better prepare a child's learning skills, beginning with the 2024-2025 school year, would require a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before that child may be admitted to the first grade at a public elementary school.
History 02/01/24 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Votes: 05/08/23 (PASS) - Sen Appropriations - Ayes: 7, Noes: 0, NVR: 0 - Placed on suspense file.
Votes: 05/08/23 (PASS) - Sen Appropriations - Ayes: 7, Noes: 0, NVR: 0 - Placed on suspense file.
Position
- Recommended Position: Support
- The kindergarten achievement has been found to correlate with first, second and third grade test scores, college entrance scores, long-term earnings and quality of life. Furthermore, as we know the childcare is a significant barrier for low income, working class families who want to reenter the workforce. A year of education should not be withheld from our most vulnerable communities, and we should work to uplift and remove barriers from all Californians, and especially those in our most disadvantaged communities.
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