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• Salem kindergarten plans underway - students signing up

  BY DERRICK PERKINS With funding for Salem’s public kindergarten program now restored to the school district’s operating budget, officials look forward to tying up the administrative details in time for the start of school in the fall. About Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 25, 2009 2:41 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Kindergarten, school board, school

• Salem schools could lose $5 million without kindergarten

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Superintendent Michael Delahanty worries that the penalty for not starting a kindergarten program could come at the cost of financial aid, though state officials have not made a clear decision on what actions may be taken. Any of the Read More... Posted Wednesday, February 04, 2009 3:27 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Budget, Kindergarten, school board

• Restoring kindergarten money to be discussed in Salem

  BY DERRICK PERKINS Voters will have the chance to either restore funding for the state-mandated kindergarten program to the budget or leave it by the wayside at the deliberative session of the School District meeting on Feb. 5. The school district’s Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:11 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• Salem school officials disappointed by decision to remove kindergarten from budget

  BY DERRICK PERKINS A Budget Committee decision to remove kindergarten from the school district’s proposed budget for next year has made starting the program more difficult, but not impossible, say officials. According to Superintendent Michael Delahanty, Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 14, 2009 8:10 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• Critics say Salem board should fight kindergarten plan

  BY DERRICK PERKINS One member of the budget committee has criticized the Salem School Board for not following nearby Hudson in challenging the state’s public kindergarten mandate in court. “It just annoys me that the School Board is ignoring Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 30, 2008 8:22 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Budget, voting, Kindergarten, school board

• School districts may get reprieve on kindergarten deadline

  BY DARRELL HALEN A legislative committee has voted to recommend giving 11 school districts a one-year extension to start a public kindergarten program in their communities. That’s welcome news to school officials in Salem, Windham and Pelham – Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:11 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Merrimack Valley, Windham, schools, Pelham, Kindergarten

• Kindergarten mandate - State says it should be part of ‘adequate’ education, but funding still in question

  BY MATT HERSH Though state legislators agree that kindergarten should be included an adequate education, bringing a kindergarten program to Salem is still a matter of funding and space. Late last month, the House voted 226-132 to approve a definition Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 04, 2007 7:18 PM by Salem Editor | 0 Comments Filed under: Salem, Kids & Family, Merrimack Valley, Kindergarten, Education