kindergarten
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Michelle Reitano, a kindergarten teacher in Methuen, said her class sizes have ranged from 16 to 18 children in recent years, down from 20 to 24 when she began teaching in the district in 2012.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
By 2020, there were 27 Hispanic children in her incoming class, enough for an entire kindergarten.
From Slate ● Oct. 28, 2026
Near Methuen in the Merrimack Valley, Dracut Public Schools are considering closing an elementary school that has shrunk to 210 students from almost 300, eliminating busing for some grades and reducing full-day kindergarten to half.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026
The findings come as California enters its second year of offering free transitional kindergarten, called TK for short, to all 4-year-olds, fully expanding the earlier and smaller program.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“Way back, that first day of kindergarten when you and I said to each other, ‘You’re just a whatnot’—you knew even then that not all the other whatnots besides you were robots?”
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
"Prolonged air-raid alerts affect not only people's safety, but also the operation of businesses, logistics, transportation, schools, kindergartens," he said.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Crimeans say basic services like kindergartens, trash collection and ATMs have stopped functioning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 28, 2026
Without the creche she would have struggled to return to work: she didn't want to lean on her own parents, and state kindergartens won't generally take children for a full day.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025
Getting vaccinated against hepatitis A has never been required as a condition of entry to California’s kindergartens or child-care centers, however.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
It had long been a leader in education, establishing one of the first kindergartens and introducing practice teaching to further the studies of its students.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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