BATON ROUGE (AP) — All 5-year-old children in Louisiana should receive a kindergarten education, lawmakers decided Wednesday.
With one day remaining in the legislative session, lawmakers sent the measure by Sen. Cleo Fields, a Baton Rouge Democrat, to the governor’s desk. The Senate voted 38-0 for the final version of the legislation, while the House backed it in a 70-32 vote.
Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards supports the bill and will sign it into law.