pre-k

Are you ready for the new school year? One last weekend of summer break before the kids of Carson City head back, so make the most of it. Jazz and Beyond takes it up a notch in its final few days with eight hours of non-stop music downtown. Western Nevada College new soccer team plays its first home game today against Folsom Lake Community College. Head to Carson High for the inaugural ‘A Place to Shine’ Show and Shine for fun for the whole family. Keep reading, this is just the tip of the iceberg.

All children who turned 5 years old by Sept. 30, 2016 can register for Kindergarten for the 2016-2017 school year with Carson City School District. Contact your neighborhood school:

Surf and Turf will be featured at this year’s 13th Annual Crab Feed scheduled for Saturday, March 5, beginning at 5 p.m. at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William Street.

This wildly popular annual dinner supports the St. Teresa of Avila Catholic School in Carson City, educating kids in grades K-8 and providing preschool and pre-K programs in its Child Development Center.

Kindergarten students at Empire Elementary School were treated Thursday by a visit from educators with KNPB Channel 5 in Reno. The visit was part of KNPB’s Ready To Learn workshops, which bring special learning topics into classrooms around the Reno-Sparks and Carson City areas.

Thursday's guest educators taught students about the forces of motion, KNPB Ready To Learn Facilitator Joy Foremaster said.

Looking for a pre-Kindergarten program? All children who turned 4 years old by Sept. 30, 2015 can qualify for the Carson City School District Pre-K program for the 2015-2016 school year.
The four elementary schools listed below offer Pre-K programs this school year.

New and Returning Student Registration for the 2015-2016 School Year
August 4 through August 14

New Students (All grade levels including Pre-K and Kindergarten):
• Parents will need to supply a copy of the following documents to their neighborhood school:
• new student enrollment form (which can be found on our website under Enrolling Students),
• copy of the student’s birth certificate,
• immunization records, and
• residency verification (property deed, mortgage document, voter registration card, etc.)

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says he supports Governor Brian Sandoval's plan to increase funding for early childhood education. Sandoval's proposed budget includes $882 million in education reforms, like Pre-K and full-day kindergarten. Furlong says he supports the programs because it could improve Nevada's graduation rates, and that could reduce incarceration rates.

Here is the full text of Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval's speech delivered to the Nevada Legislature Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015.

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Distinguished Members of the Legislature, Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Officers:

On Saturday April 5 at 11AM there will be a demonstration against Common Core in front of the Legislature Building on Carson Street between 4th and 5th Streets. It s part of a simultaneous multi-state effort.

http://www.carsonnow.org/reader-content/03/26/2014/protest-against-commo...
http://www.pr.com/press-release/550272

To understand why it is very important for everyone to come to this event, please consider the following.

2014 might need to be called the year of the child at Western Nevada College’s Child Development Center. A statewide initiative to enhance child care quality, new curriculum standards, and the introduction of an assessment process for teaching strategies are all part of the new year developments at the Center on the Carson City campus.

They say 45 states have adopted the Common Core “State” Standards for grades K-12. If you have not heard about them yet, that’s because they rammed it through with the same “you have to pass it to find out what’s in it” arrogance that gave us obamacare. The two of them are pillars of the “fundamental transformation” that candidate Obama promised in 2008.

https://peter5427.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/ominous-parallels-obamacare-a...

Common Core, The Promise

To learn what the fuss is all about, look in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_State_Standards_Initiative.

The Lodge Assisted Living Community in Carson City will again sponsor the SOLEmates Shoe drive this fall to help provide athletic shoes to local students. The second annual event, which runs through September, benefits students enrolled in the Carson City School District’s McKinney-Vento/Children in Transition program.

The grant and donation funded program helps to provide shoes, clothing, hygiene products and school supplies to students who lack a fixed living situation. The program helped nearly 600 students last school year and is expected to help the same number or more this year.

A 41-year-old Carson City man was arrested Wednesday afternoon at Mark Twain Elementary School after allegedly having a disagreement with his son's teacher and saying "this is going to be another Columbine."

According to the arrest report, the teacher told deputies that the boy's recess privileges were suspended for the week after he was caught picking on a Hispanic student, taking that student's coat and using it like a bullfighter's cape, yelling "Torro, Torro!"