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...have to have had a plan yesterday,” said Director of the Cambridge Family Resource Center Lenore Prueser, who said a decision on mergers would have to be made by December to allow parents to make informed decisions on school kindergarten placements for next year...
...Montgomery County Executive Douglas Duncan: "Everyone rushed forward to help us that first day. I don't think that would have happened before 9/11." An estimated 1,000 people are working on the case, including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) units, U.S. Marshals and state police. One kindergarten-through-second-grade school in Montgomery County was watched over alternately last week by police, Secret Service agents and the FBI. The feds have donated premier ballistics forensics investigators. The FBI, using software originally designed for movies such as Star Wars, is creating animated 3-D computer-graphic displays...
...decreased class sizes and the importance of attracting talented teachers, Reich has been outspoken about the need for statewide, full-day kindergarten—a welcome change from Acting Governor Jane Swift, who recently vetoed a $28 million state initiative to help local school districts pay for full-day kindergarten...
...that such incentives are necessary. Laut, for one, anticipates sending his triplets off to kindergarten this fall with a mixture of excitement and terror. "It'll be nice to have a couple of hours to myself," he says. "But they're gonna grow up and meet friends and have their lives. So, you know, I'm cherishing the moments." --With reporting by Leslie Everton Brice/Decatur, Jeanne DeQuine/Miami and Adam Pitluk/Arlington
...Line--virtually require. No laid-back lullabies, these beat-heavy, infectious numbers demand nonstop waving, shaking, stomping and singing along. The effect can be therapeutic. "I had a little guy in class who was so quiet and shy, I thought he had a speech impediment," says Mona Kolodzie, a kindergarten teacher at John Muir Elementary School in Contra Costa County, Calif. "Once he heard Greg & Steve, he started coming out of his shell. At first he'd just watch the other kids, but soon he was smiling, and by the end of the year, he was singing and talking with...