§ 46119 Small District Kindergarten Scheduling

• •Small schools with fewer than 40 kindergarten kids can ask for special permission to have two short kindergarten classes on the same day, taught by one teacher.
• •Each class must be 150 minutes long, including recess.
• •The school gets counted as having half the usual number of kids for funding purposes.

A tiny school with 30 kindergarten kids wants to save money.

They can ask the state to let one teacher teach two short classes in one day. The school will get funding as if only half the kids were there.