South Portland Schools Now Instructing Mothers To Just Have The Obstetrician Scrape Off The Vernix And Drop The Thing Off At The School

SOUTH PORTLAND — Thanks to a $125,000 grant, the city next year will expand public preschool education to 4-year-olds at Kaler Elementary School. The expansion is the latest step in the School Department’s goal of universal preschool access by 2015, Superintendent Suzanne Godin said. It comes two years after the district opened its first public preschool, which serves future Skillin and and Brown elementary school students, at the Opportunity Alliance Family Center at 50 Lydia Lane. Like the Brick Hill preschool, Kaler was targeted for preschool expansion because of the neighborhood’s high poverty rate (54 percent) and problems with kindergarten truancy, which Godin said can predict future drop-out rates.  “Truancy rates in South Portland are highest in kindergarten, and students who miss that much school are at risk of failure or dropping out,” she said. “We’re trying to instill that love of learning early on, and the foundation that learning is important.” (read more at The Forecaster)

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