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Wantagh School Board to Explore Adding Full-Day Kindergarten

Strategic planning committee being formed to explore implementation of full-day kindergarten program and declining enrollment in district.

The Wantagh Board of Education is forming a strategic planning committee that will help determine whether implementing full-day kindergarten in the district is a realistic goal.

Wantagh Board of Education President Michael Cucci said during the trustees’ July 3 meeting that the committee will explore the implementation of full-day kindergarten as well as declining enrollment in the district. Cucci said the board will select committee members from the community with a first meeting taking place in August. The plan is to have the new committee report back to the school board in December, Cucci said.

Wantagh along with East Meadow are the only two school districts in Nassau County that do not offer full-day kindergarten. Neighboring Seaford and Levittown have both implemented full-day kindergarten programs in recent years.

- Should Wantagh School District add a full-day kindergarten program? Tell us in the comments. 

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joe21 May 20, 2013 at 12:06 pm
$20 million of the $40 million will be spent on adding a pocket track, presumably east ofRead More Massapequa. Currently, trains are reversed east of the Wantagh interlocking, and while the engineer walks through the train, it blocks the track. This addition of a "pocket track" will probably also help Wantagh commuters some times, just as an emergency pull-over space on the LIE helps.
Eric Jurist May 18, 2013 at 03:27 pm
True, true, I'm sure there's a political payoff/payback here somewhere.
Constance Roland May 19, 2013 at 09:05 am
Lol!! Write on!!
Chris Wendt May 15, 2013 at 02:05 pm
A tantalizing, mind-teasing story about a faceless team with no names who won honorable mention forRead More some project about which we learned absolutely nothing from this article. Journalism 101: Who what, why when and where?