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House extends Upstart home-based kindergarten pilot for five years amid cost and eligibility debate
Summary
The House adopted a first substitute to Senate Bill 148 on Feb. 26, 2014, extending the Upstart home-based kindergarten readiness pilot for five years, changing eligibility language and prioritizing low-income and limited-English students; the measure passed the House 52-21.
Representative Last, the House sponsor, moved to adopt the first substitute for Senate Bill 148, a five-year extension of the Upstart home-based kindergarten readiness pilot and related program changes. The substitute narrows the program's low-income definition (from the prior statutory 200% of poverty to 85% as drafted in the substitute) and clarifies that students who meet the low-income definition or have limited English proficiency will have priority if the program is oversubscribed.
The sponsor told colleagues the bill preserves an outside evaluation component and requires the state office of education to issue a new request for proposals at the end of the five-year pilot so other contractors can be considered. On the program's effectiveness,…
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