If the bill — which has passed the Senate and awaits action in the House — is enacted, Maryland would become one of the few states that have enacted laws in the past decade
making kindergarten attendance mandatory.
That evaluation found that children who attended prekindergarten had higher academic and social ratings by their kindergarten teachers and
better kindergarten attendance than did children who did not attend preschool programs.
The Multnomah County, Ore., Linkage Project developed this handout for parents in several languages:
Kindergarten Attendance Leads to School Success
Objectives: The present study aimed at exploring selected language development dimensions in kindergarten children with a migration background taking into consideration the duration
of kindergarten attendance and home language.
The estimated effects on earnings are imprecise, however, and leave open the possibility that
kindergarten attendance had effects on earnings comparable to any other year of education for African Americans and whites alike.
Although schools and districts face many challenges related to pre-K and
kindergarten attendance, several promising strategies to tackle chronic absenteeism have emerged.
Lexical performance was the only one which was significantly higher in children with
a kindergarten attendance > 1 year.
Abstract: Objectives: The present study aimed at exploring selected language development dimensions in kindergarten children with a migration background taking into consideration the duration of
kindergarten attendance and home language.