Show TIIE THE kindergarten supported by the demands of individual citizens clubs civic organizations organization i and the daily press the school chool authorities 1 of san sail francisco have re bently recommended the lish ment of 20 additional kinder garfers this means that when the estimate they have presented to the proper authorities has been formally approved approximately 1000 more children be tween four and six years old in san francisco will receive the well rounded training which the kindergarten gives through its play work songs games and sl ories until aly san francisco has not been as 43 advanced as ds most large cities ci ties of the united states in providing ig public bubli education for children under n dai primary school age having but 11 kindergan tens public ally supported this was the ithe more surprising because it had the most famous of the early kindergarten philanthropies and for years no other city iliad had so many or such generously provided provid eq of this kind J two factors of universal in terest stand out in the action of the san franciseo fancine o school board i the passage of a new form of kinder kindergarten gart ell le legislation gi in cali fornia three years ago and the thorough canvas of the state i during the past two years to parents acnes and educators to the opportunities the new law brings cali california orpa now has one of the best kindergarten laws in the country it says that whenever parents of 25 children of kindergarten age who live within a mile of an all elementary school want a kindergarten the way is is open for them to get one simply by petitioning the loc local al educational authorities it t was not however until tho law had been brought to the at of the peor people ile through systematic effort that any marked advantage was reaped from its favorable provisions A number of agencies contributed te to make the law effective in 1914 a i special collaborator of the united states bureau of education uca tion who is also a field secretary of the national kindergarten association began coop co op er crating with parents and state and local school officials official t to bring about the establishment of more classes through her efforts ad the efforts of citizens within A and without the schools the number of girls and boys receiving kindergarten instruction throughout california has practically doubled since this extension i work was begun los angeles which may be taken as an example now has 1133 kindergartens as compared v with ith 74 in 1912 oakland which had only 3 kindergartens before the law passed has 30 at the present time san francisco is the most recent instance of a systematic campaign of petition ng resulting in in an increase in in kindergarten facilities |