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Full Day Kindergarten

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

VVSD Explores Costs of All-Day Kindergarten

Architect presents plans to outfit each campus for the program.

A plan to bring full-day kindergarten to Valley View School District could come with $13 million in construction costs, according to the project architect. Craig Siepka of Darien-based Wight & Company said renovations, additions or both will be needed at each of the district’s 12 elementary schools to create space for the all-day program. Since last spring, Superintendent James Mitchem has been leading the charge to implement full-day kindergarten, with the aim of targeting students while they are in the lower grades to avoid the need for intervention later. The proposal is part of a plan to shift resources toward grades K-3 in an effort to boost academic performance. On Monday, Mitchem cited studies that link full-day kindergarten to …

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VVSD Looking into All-Day Kindergarten, Valley View Community School District 365-U (in Romeoville Patch), Mitchem Says Valley View Needs All-Day Kindergarten, and 13 more ›

Michael

3:28 pm on Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Again, exhausting. Repair shops? Really? Day care centers? Really? It's a proven form of education that helps students succeed in the long run. I have no problem with my tax dollars going to the education system. If that makes me slavishly extolling the talking points of the left in your opinion, then so be it. I believe that our education system should be well funded in order to meet the …   more ›

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Survey: Parents Love the Idea of All-Day Kindergarten, But Not the Cost

Committee recommends bringing a full-day program to Valley View, but finding funding sources to take the burden off parents.

Valley View School District parents and community members are overwhelmingly in support of a plan to bring full-day kindergarten to the district. What they aren’t so happy about is a proposed $150 per month fee, according to survey findings presented by members of a committee tasked with exploring the logistics of making the program a reality. In May, the district asked residents to complete a survey aimed at gauging community interest in all-day kindergarten. According to the committee, 2,259 people responded to the survey, with 85 percent saying it would be a good idea for Valley View to offer the program. However, 66 percent said a $150 fee would be too pricey. That didn’t seem to come as a surprise to committee members, who shared …

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Valley View Community School District 365-U (in Romeoville Patch)

D.A.

9:36 am on Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Ok...so u all are saying pay for your ChildCare....we also have to pay registration fees for the oyher children and the older they get the more expensive it gets. We have to pay book fees....THEY ONLY USE THE BOOKS...they turn them back in...do we get our money back? NO! Valley view nickles and dimes everyone for everything. It is ridiculous how much FREE PUBLIC SCHOOL is costing us a year …   more ›

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