When the time came to register my son for kindergarten, one simple section on the registration paperwork troubled me greatly: "Ethnicity (choose one)." Choose one?
A list of schools with kindergarten and primary sections within the two selected municipalities was obtained from Kampala City Council Authority Education office.
He got his job through a friend he had known since kindergarten in the Dyker Heights section of Brooklyn, where Mr. Safi still lived with his family.
The school, which had 11 class sections in kindergarten through fourth grade, expects to enroll 145 more students next year: 78 from Columbia and 67 from the community.
Since then, they have racked up quite a few other successes, including a sixth-place finish in the kindergarten-through-third-grade section at the National Youth Action championship last month, and the New Jersey first-grade championship the following week.
And Avenues, the for-profit school scheduled to open next year in Greenwich Village, is devoting a large section of its kindergarten floor to a block center.
Savings vehicles include Coverdell Education Savings Accounts (for covering kindergarten and primary school tuition) and Section 529 plans (for college).
This year, its team finished second in the kindergarten-through-fifth-grade uncapped championship section.
Stevenson has become particularly adept at winning the kindergarten-through-fifth-grade under 900 section, taking the title in 2008, 2009 and 2010, and always by wide margins.
The daughter of a computer engineer and a kindergarten teacher, she grew up in the Castle Hill section.
