Kevin Taylor, who had attended a meeting organised by Henson and traffic engineer Duncan Campbell to discuss changes to the central business district under the Taupō Town Centre Transformation (TTCT), said “to characterise my korero as defensive, means I am damned if I do, damned if I don’t.” The pair have been questioning the rationale in treating a number of intersections in the TTCT plans with traffic lights rather than roundabouts – which they say were signalled in earlier council plans. A council spokesperson has said designs are yet to be finalised though confirmed there are “initial designs for lights along Spa Rd.”
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This process took decades. By the mid-1960s, still only about half of states offered funding for kindergarten programs. The final growth spurt took place over the next decade, according to a study by Dartmouth economist Elizabeth Cascio. Many states especially in the South and West saw kindergarten as a way to ultimately save money.
“[States thought] this is going to reduce grade repetition where we have to pay for a kid to go through this grade twice,” Cascio said.
By the latter half of the 20th century, the K-12 school system had been largely established.
This melding of kindergarten with the broader education system led to a kind of natural merger. By virtue of being in the same buildings and under the same administrative auspices, kindergartens naturally became more academic.