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Darien’s Early Learning Program Has Openings for Summer

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Summertime fun with a focus on Kindergarten Readiness! A Regular Education Teacher and a Special Education teacher will be teaching an integrated class of typically developing students and students with special needs for Darien Public Schools’ summertime Early Learning Program class. Each class is modeled after a typical kindergarten classroom with approximately twenty students per classroom. The goal of the readiness program will be to develop independence and familiarity with the Kindergarten school day. The course will promote academic readiness skills such as letter and number recognition and counting, while encouraging students to work independently, in small groups, and large groups on various pre-academic activities.

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On School Spending, PART 5: Statements on the Early Learning Program from Budget Hearing

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Here are statements advocating support of the Early Learning Program, all from the Board of Education’s Feb. 2 public hearing on the school budget. Darienite.com will publish the full text of every statement from the public hearing that we receive by email If you didn’t give your statement to the CDSP, please email it to us at dave@darienite.com; we encourage readers to send in letters to the editor on this or any other topic by emailing to the same address. _______________

See also:

Superintendent Proposes 3.85% Increase in Darien Education Budget (Jan. 8)
Support for Early Learning Program, Teacher Training at Board of Ed Budget Hearing (main article, Feb.

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Support for Early Learning Program, Teacher Training at Board of Ed Budget Hearing

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Speakers from the Board of Education’s public hearing Tuesday night on the superintendent’s proposed 2016-2017 budget gave strong support for the proposal’s increase in teacher training (“professional development”) and for the Early Learning Program. Proposals for capital projects — like the expansion of the Darien High School Cafeteria, improvements to the gym floor of Ox Ridge School and moving the principal’s office at Hindley School — also received support. Darien Public Schools spending would go up 3.85 percent, to $94.2 million in the 2016-2017 fiscal year under the budget proposal Superintendent Dan Brenner put forward to the Board of Education

Speakers all seemed to be either associated with the Council of Darien School Parents, an umbrella organization for parent-teacher organizations throughout the school system, or parents in the Early Learning Program. _______________

See also:

Superintendent Proposes 3.85% Increase in Darien Education Budget (Jan. 8)
Mother of Autistic Child Explains How Early Learning Program Changed His Life [VIDEO] (Feb.