High-Cost Kindergarten
Gov. Mitch Daniels’ full-day Kindergarten plan will be extremely expensive. The plan would cost $54 million in the 2007-08 school year, but would balloon to $260 million by 2011-12. In addition, 82% of school districts need more faculty in order to implement the program, and 53% need more classrooms.
Dan Clark, deputy director of the Indiana State Teacher’s Association, says that the plan will actually save the State money in the long run, but Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Meeks believes that the program is just too expensive, and that parents should be doing their jobs better.
This program, one of Daniels’ better ideas, should be implemented. One would think that after selling off several state roads and departmental functions, with others up for bids, that full-day kindergarten could be afforded.
