Establishing a unified administrative structure for early learning opportunities; allowing the integration of early childhood education (prekindergarten and kindergarten) with early elementary grades; allowing the state board of education and existing prekindergarten programs, under commissioner of education approval, to enter agreements to provide a continuum of care; authorizing commissioners of education and human services to waive or modify existing requirements and make special allocations or grants; allowing agreements to provide for nonprofit corporations or charter schools; allowing tuition or participant fees; requiring agreements to create a management board, specifying agreement requirements
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