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YMCA Childcare director: preschool vital to success later

Posted: September 3, 2009 @ 6:52 am In Today's Local News

Iowa House Speaker Pat Murphy says they hope to offer ninety percent of four year olds access to preschool by 2011. Murphy says studies suggest learning during the preschool years helps prepare students for success later in life. That’s an assessment Washington YMCA Childcare Director Shalon Hoyle agrees with. Hoyle says preschool is also a time when children begin to learn social skills. She says that’s why their program is “play based.” The Y’s program is funded through the state’s voluntary preschool program.

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