{"data":{"id":"us-az/a.r.s.-15-703","jurisdiction":"us-az","citation":"A.R.S. § 15-703","heading":"Kindergarten programs and special departments; special teachers","body":"A. The governing board may:\n\n1. Establish departments of industrial arts and consumer education and homemaking.\n\n2. Employ special teachers in special subjects.\n\nB. Each common school district or unified school district shall establish a kindergarten program, unless the governing board of such common school district or unified school district files an exemption claim with the department of education. A district is exempt from establishing a kindergarten program if it files with the department of education an exemption claim which states that the establishment of a kindergarten program will interfere with the work of, or maintenance of efficiency in, the grades and that a kindergarten program is not in the best interests of the district. Each school district that establishes a kindergarten program shall offer half-day kindergarten programs that provide academically meaningful instruction in each of the academic standards adopted by the state board of education. A school district that establishes a full-day kindergarten program shall allow each parent of a kindergarten pupil to choose either half-day kindergarten instruction or full-day kindergarten instruction and shall provide the option of academically meaningful half-day kindergarten instruction in every school in the school district that has enough students to fill a half-day kindergarten class at a class size that is approximately equal to the average kindergarten class size for the school district as a whole.\n\nC. For the purpose of maintaining a kindergarten program a common school district or unified school district governing board may lease such buildings as may be necessary as provided by law.","path":["Title 15 Education"],"source_url":"https://www.azleg.gov/ars/15/00703.htm","current_through":"2026-09-04","vintage":"2026-08-09","retrieved_at":"2026-09-04T00:49:56Z","sha256":"6d0cd23e846a0b166248cc2dfcf1564afe4d8cf5f03ff6abf859960b8c44e832","source_id":"us-az","stale":true,"prev":"us-az/a.r.s.-15-702","next":"us-az/a.r.s.-15-704"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}