Education-mandatory kindergarten.

WORKING DRAFT
2014
STATE OF
WYOMING
14LSO-0047

SENATE FILE
NO.

SF0119

Education-mandatory kindergarten.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Barnard and Driskill

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to kindergarten; requiring attendance of kindergarten for all children; modifying the mandatory age for attendance; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.

W.S. 21
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110(
a)(xx), 21
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102(a)(intro) and 21
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302(a) are amended to read:

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110.

Duties of boards of trustees.

(a)

The board of trustees in each school district shall:

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Establish and maintain kindergartens in connection with the public schools of the district
;

with
at

least one (1) full-day kindergarten program available within the district
;

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102.

When attendance required; exemptions; withdrawal.

(a)

Every parent, guardian or other person having control or charge of any child who is a resident of this state and whose
seventh

sixth
birthday falls on or before September 15 of any year and who has not yet attained his sixteenth birthday or completed the tenth grade shall be required to send such child to, and such child shall be required to attend, a public or private school each year, during the entire time that the public schools shall be in session in the district in which the pupil resides; provided, that the board of trustees of each school district may exempt any child from the operation of this article when:

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302.

Age for registration for kindergarten; preschool programs.

(a)

A pupil
may

shall
register in
the first grade

kindergarten
in the public schools of this state
not later
than
in the year in which his sixth birthday falls on or before September 15.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2014.

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