Cranston Schools pitch all-day kindergarten in budget proposal

CRANSTON, R.I. — Schools Supt. Jeannine Nota-Masse has proposed a $151.5-million operating budget for the 2016-2017 fiscal year that would pay for state-mandated all-day kindergarten and conversion of Hope Highlands Elementary School to a middle school in order to implement the mandate.Allocating classrooms in the elementary schools for kindergarten would create a space crunch that has prompted the School Committee to plan to move the [...]