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Pilot kindergarten program coming at Delta school

The program employs certified early childhood educators to provide before- and after-school care in kindergarten classrooms and to support learning alongside the classroom teacher

Seamless Kindergarten is coming to the Delta School District.

The district had been given a grant to set up a Ministry of Education and Child Care pilot program at a local school and the district subsequently held a childcare survey to determine where there is currently the most need.

Parents were recently informed of the results helping identify Sunshine Hills Elementary in North Delta as the best location for the Seamless Day Kindergarten pilot program.

It

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Georgia education bills include literacy rates, vouchers

Education bills are getting a mixed reception in the General Assembly this year.

Measures to protect teacher’s time and up the state’s literacy rates have received nearly unanimous approval, while private-school vouchers have drawn fierce opposition.

“The teachers I know don’t want to walk away … but too many teachers I know are running on empty,” Cherie Bonder Goldman, the 2022 Georgia teacher of the year, wrote at the start of a state Department of Education report published last year. The report recommended increasing the amount of time teachers have to deal with class planning and grading.

Lawmakers appear to

Ethical Codes for Kindergarten Teachers From Different Countries
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Ethical Codes for Kindergarten Teachers From Different Countries

SHANGHAI, dec. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Early childhood education is a critical stage in a child’s intellectual and overall development. Similarly, early childhood education is an ethical task pivoted on the values, motivation and responsibility of teachers. Therefore, it is important that the professional standards for early education also include ethical codes. These acts as an often unsaid contract between society and teachers. They guide the professional conduct of teachers and prevent misconduct, while strengthening the teachers’ professional identity.

With the aim of advancing the discussion and research surrounding ethical codes for teachers, this special issue of the ECNU

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CA students left school after COVID, many still ‘missing’

Students walk to their classrooms on the first day of school at Quarry Trail Elementary School in Rocklin in August.  A new study reveals that more than 150,000 California children are not receiving a formal education, and enrollment dropped more than 270,000 in the past three years.

Students walk to their classrooms on the first day of school at Quarry Trail Elementary School in Rocklin in August. A new study reveals that more than 150,000 California children are not receiving a formal education, and enrollment dropped more than 270,000 in the past three years.

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Nearly 152,000 California children are not attending any type of formal school, a new analysis of pandemic enrollment data found.

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Some of the drop is explained by students skipping kindergarten, which California Gov. Gavin Newsom sanctioned in September. But huge numbers of these children are likely attending unsanctioned homeschool

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida say they are considering leaving the state
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More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida say they are considering leaving the state

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida are considering moving their families to another state over concerns that a new Florida education law – known to its critics as the “Don’t Say Gay” law – stigmatizes LGBTQ identities and creates a hostile learning environment for LGBTQ children or students with LGBTQ family members.

In a report issued Tuesday by the Williams Institute, a public policy research institute based at the UCLA of Law, and Clark University in Massachusetts, 56 percent of LGBTQ parents surveyed said they were considering leaving Florida over concerns about how the new law might impact