Why have the Lakota Schools asked to be excused from having all day Kindergarten classes?”
Ohio School districts are in planning mode. They’re expected to make all-day kindergarten an option for parents by next school year, but the expense has dozens of districts asking for more time to implement the program. A spokesman from the Ohio Department of Education tells 9News 150 school districts have expressed interest in asking to be waived from the requirement for the 2010-11 school year. The paperwork to request a waiver needs to be turned in to the Ohio Department of Education in Columbus during the next few months. A survey by the Ohio Department of Education indicates 60 percent of the state’s districts already offer an all day option. Mason and Lakota School Districts are both working on their waiver applications. District leaders say they don’t have the money to provide the all-day classes. With the state already reducing school funding and the government not funding the requirement, the districts say they can’t do it until the government funds the program. The Mason scho
