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Title 5-DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION |
5 CSR 50-340.020 Instruction for Prekindergarten PURPOSE: This rule authorizes public schools to provide for the gratuitous education of pupils in prekindergarten. (1) A public school district may provide for the gratuitous education of pupils in prekindergarten. The gratuitous education, however, shall be provided only out of revenues which are not derived from state aid for the kindergarten through twelve (K - 12) program and only with revenues which are not required for establishing and maintaining free public schools for the gratuitous instruction of persons between the ages of five and twenty (5 - 20) years. (2) Transportation may be provided at district expense for prekindergarten pupils on the same basis as for pupils in kindergarten through grade twelve (K-12), provided no state funds are used. AUTHORITY: section 161.092, RSMo (1986).* Original rule filed Nov. 5, 1969, effective Nov. 15, 1969. *Original authority 1963, amended 1973. |