Editor s note: This story has been updated to reflect that Center Grange would be renovated in the full-day kindergarten program.
CENTER TWP. Central Valley officials say they will move forward with plans to begin an all-day kindergarten program so long as they can find a way to fund it.
The school board was split during Thursday evening s voting meeting. The board voted 5-4 in favor of implementing all-day kindergarten beginning in the 2023-24 school year. School board members Thomas Mowad, Joe O Neill, Dr. Nick Unis and George Zaritski voted against the measure, saying it is fiscally unwise, mainly because they don t believe it is fiscally wise.