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Teachers, parents urge Western Placer Unified to keep full‑day kindergarten, warn of learning loss
Summary
Teachers and parents told the Western Placer Unified board that a proposed return to half‑day kindergarten would cut hundreds of instructional hours, undermine early‑literacy gains and increase family child‑care costs; speakers asked the district and board to seek alternatives to classroom reductions.
Members of the public and district educators told the Western Placer Unified School District board that a proposed rollback from the district’s extended‑day kindergarten to a half‑day model would remove instruction that they say is critical to early literacy and social skills.
The comments, made during the meeting’s public‑comment period, came after teacher Jennifer Stacy said a separate judicial communication — which she identified as coming from Judge Lavin — indicated the district’s schedule change was postponed until 2027. Stacy, an art teacher at Lindsay Kaufman, told the board the postponement did not lessen her concern that the change would “take us backwards by more than five years.”
Why it matters: Teachers and parents said extended kindergarten…
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