PEELER SLATED FOR FULL WEEK OF FULL-DAY KINDERGARTEN
Lieutenant Governor Bob Peeler will spend the week visiting full-day kindergarten classes across the state. During these visits the Lieutenant Governor will meet with teachers, parents, and students to gain first-hand knowledge of South Carolina full-day kindergarten programs.
Peeler will be visiting schools that have offered full-day kindergarten on the local level for years, as well as schools that recently implemented full-day kindergarten under legislation passed by the 1996 South Carolina General Assembly.
Currently, the state of South Carolina provides optional full-day kindergarten for at-risk children only. Next year the legislature will consider proposals to expand optional full-day kindergarten for all children. Peeler, a supporter of last year's full-day kindergarten proposal, plans to put the insight he gains from visits to South Carolina classrooms to work when the legislature revisits the issue of full-day kindergarten next session.
| MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 | 10:00a.m. Gaffney, B.D. Lee
Elementary, Overbrook Dr. 1:00p.m. Simpsonville, Bethel Elementary, 111 Bethel School Dr.
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| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 | 10:00a.m. Columbia, Brennen
Elementary, 4438 Devereux Rd. 1:00p.m. N. Augusta, N. Augusta Elementary, 400 E. Spring Grove
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| WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 | 10:00a.m. Rock Hill, Ebenezer
Avenue Elementary, 242 Ebenezer Rd.
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| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3 | 10:00a.m. Florence, Carver
Elementary, 515 N. Cashua Dr.
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| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4 | 10:00a.m. Charleston, Oakland Elementary, 2728 Arlington Dr |