Kindergarten originated from this European country.
What is Germany?
100
Funding for optional all-day kindergarten is expected to increase participation in free all-day kindergarten in FY 2015 to this percent.
What is to 85%?
100
In 1997, this MPS superintendent made All Day kindergarten a priority.
Who is Carol Johnson?
100
In 1997 MPS began testing incoming kindergarteners and found this to be true.
What was a significant gap among white students and students of color?
100
According to MPS principals, thi is a major benefit of all day kindergarten.
What is school readiness by first grade?
200
He set up a school in 1837 that became know as Kindergarten.
Who is Friedrich Froebel?
200
The Superintendent of Minneapolis Public schools is a strong proponent of this program and is therefore funding this program at 24 schools.
What is High Five?
200
The number of U.S. students with access to district funded all day kindergarten in 2013.
What is 76%
200
The number 28 represents the average of this for kindergarten in Minneapolis Public Schools.
What is class size?
200
One Minneapolis principal, cited this as a benefit of all day kindergarten.
What is the development of positive student-student and teacher-student relationships?
300
The term kindergarten emerged from these two root meanings?
What are 'child' and 'garden'?
300
This is the average cost of an MPS High Five program, not funded by the district?
What is $9,500.00
300
The number of Minnesota students with access to district funded all day kindergarten in 2013.
What is 54%
300
In Minneapolis, these two factors influenced the funding for all day kindergarten.
What are high poverty and low school performance?
300
Studies have show that all day kindergarten to be an effective strategy for addressing this issue.
What is reducing the achievement gap?
400
The German Revolution led many Germans to flee to this Wisconsin town where the first kindergarten was opened in 1855?
Where is Watertown, Wisconsin?
400
Before the state mandated all day kindergarten, MPS funded all day kindergarten at this number of sites.
What is 30?
400
This new set of criteria, adopted by Minnesota in 2010 to be implemented in the 2012-13 school year, is the driving force for all day kindergarten.
What is the Common Core?
400
Teachers and administrators at buildings who have previously had all day kindergarten programs in MPS, identified three main benefits of all day kindergarten.
What are more time for academics, social-emotional learning and routines of school.
400
In this program, all day kindergarten is a component of its practice.
What is montessori?
500
This world event sparked the analysis of the U.S. education system including at the pre-school and kindergarten level.
What is the launching of the Sputnik by the Russians in 1957?
500
Before state mandated all day kindergarten, some MPS schools that wanted all day kindergaten and did not receive funds to support this, relied on this resource to fund full day kindergarten.
What is PTA or parent fundraising?
500
These two neighboring states supported all day kindergarten before Minnesota.
What are Wisconsin and North Dakota?
500
On average, this is the amount of time allocated for academics in a half day kindergarten program.
What is 90 minutes?
500
According to Superintendent Johnson, these are two reasons she supports and funds all day kindergarten.
What is to meet the needs of all students and attract diversity?