It was all fun and games (and finger painting and singing and dancing) in preschool, but kindergarten is a different ball game. Knowing whether or not your kid is ready for the structure and ...

Universal TK provides a free, high-quality preschool option for all California families with 4-year-olds. This is critical in terms of access and affordability and ensures that more families can ...

This is the fourth in a series of stories on the challenges impacting California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Transitional kindergarten for all 4-year-olds ...

Children who attended transitional kindergarten performed better on language, literacy and math skills when they started kindergarten, compared to their peers who weren’t in the program, according to ...

Sheets Memorial Christian School will be offering parents an option when it comes to deciding if their child is ready to start kindergarten. The transitional pre-kindergarten program is a class for ...

In a classroom at Pleasant Valley Elementary School in Novato, a group of kindergartners tackles a phonics lesson, while a group of “young 5s” — transitional kindergartners — studies in the adjoining ...

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State leaders have approved a rollout of universal transitional kindergarten over the next few years, but San Diego Unified will jump ahead and offer it to all 4-year-olds this fall. Meanwhile at ...

For five straight years, enrollment at Grass Valley Elementary School was on the decline. A small school tucked behind the Oakland Zoo, Grass Valley lost more than 40% of its students between 2019 and ...

Students Makena Kinoti, left, and Temma McCord practice writing with Yasmin Kudrolli, a transitional kindergarten teacher in Oakland, Calif. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...

In a major shift for early education, California is expanding its transitional kindergarten program to eventually include all 4-year-olds. While most districts will receive additional dollars for the ...