Requires full-day kindergarten in all school districts and establishes uniform age requirement for enrollment in kindergarten.

This bill requires all New Jersey public school districts to provide full-day kindergarten programs by specific deadlines: districts in categories A, B, CD, or DE must start by the 2020-2021 school year, and others by 2021-2022. It also establishes a uniform age requirement, mandating that children must be age 5 by October 1 of the school year to enroll in kindergarten (replacing district-specific cutoffs). The bill directly affects all public school districts and kindergarten students in New Jersey. It is currently pending, having been introduced in the Senate on January 9, 2024.