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 ...

Students play with bubbles at Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach, a preschool serving children age 5 and under through a public-private partnership. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Yelena ...

California’s transitional kindergarten program is designed as a bridge between preschool and kindergarten. Launched roughly a decade ago for “fall babies” who narrowly missed the cutoff for ...

Emina Kelley's 5-year-old son just missed the cutoff to start kindergarten last fall in Arlington, Massachusetts. His September birthday meant another year at his preschool. But Kelley's sixth-grade ...

Education researchers say happier teachers are more likely to stay and that stability can be good for long-term learning ...

Transitional kindergarten — a year that prepares children who aren’t quite old enough or mature enough for kindergarten — boosts school readiness and achievement in the spots around the state where it ...

SACRAMENTO (KPIX) -- Thanks to an expansion of transitional kindergarten by Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislators, all four-year-olds California will be able to enroll in publicly-funded school ...

Matthew Escorcia arranged a swarm of candy-colored toy bugs in a line on the tiny desk in front of him. "One, two, three," the 4-year-old transitional kindergartner counted steadily through the row of ...

Governor Gavin Newsom proposed the transitional kindergarten, or TK, expansion last month, and state legislators included the estimated $2.7 billion it’ll take to run the program each year in the ...

SACRAMENTO — Transitional kindergarten, currently available only to about one-third of California’s 4-year-olds, would be expanded to all by the 2024 academic year under a proposal unveiled Wednesday ...

Signs reading “Save our TK” were placed in front of San Luis Coastal trustees as the board heard about impending budget cuts on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Sadie Dittenber [email protected] ...