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A bill requiring public schools to provide kindergarten and mandatory attendance will be heard in the Senate education committee today. Stand for Children Governmental Affairs Director Brigitte Nieland said they fully support Senator Cleo Fields’ legislation because kindergarten provides vital foundational skills for students. “We know that brain development in the first five years of life is the most significant piece of learning that will take place in a student’s lifetime,” said Nieland. Nieland said while some assume kindergarten is already mandatory if the bill passes it would go into effect fall of 2022 and increase attendance considerably. “Surprisingly only maybe thirty to forty percent of five-year-olds are in kindergarten, so the increase would be quite a bit once the law takes effect,” said Nieland. ....