The council approved using money leftover from the school district's budget to pay for expanding the full-day kindergarten program to nearly all elementary schools. There are still 18 schools in the city that offer only half-day kindergarten. Virginia Beach and Chesapeake are two of the last remaining cities in the state that offer half-day kindergarten programs. By the next school year, only three of the 53 Virginia Beach public schools — John B. Dey, Hermitage and Thoroughgood — will still be without full-day kindergarten. Those schools are under construction.