Description: In June 2004, the Joint Finance Committee of the Delaware General Assembly
appropriated funds to establish ten pilot full-day kindergarten programs for the 2004-2005 school
year. The purpose of the appropriation was to determine the efficacy of delivering differing
models of full-day kindergarten programs throughout the state. Funds were awarded to ten fullday
kindergarten models proposed by Delaware school districts and charter schools. The Joint
Finance Committee required that programs receiving funding provide outcome data to be used
for an evaluation of the full-day kindergarten programs. The Delaware Department of Education
contracted with the University of Delaware Center for Disabilities Studies to conduct the
evaluation of the ten full-day kindergarten models and a set of up to ten comparison part-day
kindergarten programs.
