Less than 10 percent of New Jersey school districts still have half-day kindergarten. But the plan to mandate full-day programs doesn't come with money.
Greater access to computers and the Internet is helping children learn how to socialize earlier in life, but a number of New Jersey parents and teachers also may be noticing that kids are forming cliques at a much younger age, as soon as in kindergarten.
Several lawmakers are hoping to convince Gov. Chris Christie to reconsider previously vetoed legislation hat would have created a task force to explore the pros and cons of all-day kindergarten.
Like a lot of people, Assemblyman Charles Mainor had no idea that kids in the Garden State do not have to go to kindergarten. Mainor and a trio of other Assembly members have introduced a bill to force children to go to kindergarten and to lower the age at which they have to start attending school.