{"id":13763,"date":"2013-01-22T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=13763"},"modified":"2013-01-22T21:00:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T03:00:27","slug":"clarksville-montgomery-county-school-board-hears-presentation-about-new-kindergarten-start-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2013\/01\/22\/clarksville-montgomery-county-school-board-hears-presentation-about-new-kindergarten-start-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarksville Montgomery County School Board Hears Presentation about New Kindergarten Start Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-23345\" title=\"The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System\" alt=\"The Clarksville-Montgomery County School System\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/cmcss-logo.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"86\" \/><strong>Montgomery County, TN<\/strong> &#8211; At Tuesday night&#8217;s Clarksville Montgomery County School Board work session, Elementary Schools Director Dr. Ann Griffin reviewed a state law (House Bill 2566) passed last year that impacts the age of children starting kindergarten for the 2013-14 school year.<!--more-->Previously, children could enroll in kindergarten if they turned five years old by September 30th.<\/p>\n<p>The new law now requires that children be five by August 31st for the 2013-14 school year, and five by August 15th for the 2014-15 school year.<\/p>\n<p>All students currently enrolled in a CMCSS Pre-K program will be allowed to enter kindergarten next school year regardless of when they turn five.<\/p>\n<p>That is not the case for the 2014-15 school year. The law does not address enrollment age for pre-kindergarten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County, TN &#8211; At Tuesday night&#8217;s Clarksville Montgomery County School Board work session, Elementary Schools Director Dr. Ann Griffin reviewed a state law (House Bill 2566) passed last year that impacts the age of children starting kindergarten for the 2013-14 school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[12043,4896,5584,103,1601,17513,4173,160],"class_list":["post-13763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-ann-griffin","tag-children","tag-clarksville-montgomery-county-school-board","tag-clarksville-montgomery-county-school-system","tag-cmcss","tag-house-bill-2566","tag-kindergarten","tag-montgomery-county"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-3zZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13763"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13767,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13763\/revisions\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}