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 ...

Early-childhood advocates have been concerned for some time that the academic expectations of elementary school are filtering down to kindergarten. Now, there’s a bit of pressure from the other ...

Yelena Hagooli has done everything possible to give her 4-year-old son the best start in life. She took him to the library every week, fed him the healthiest foods, left her job to care for him, and ...

Teacher Akiko Miyata, left, and Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke walked through a preschool classroom Tuesday at Fern Elementary. Once a crowded space for older elementary grades, the room was emptied over the ...

Arroyo Grande’s Ocean View Elementary is breaking ground on new classrooms. “The last time this campus had a permanent classroom built was 1962, which was ironically, 62 years ago," Andy Stenson, ...

As California's transitional kindergarten program has expanded, more schools are providing all TK-classrooms rather than mixed TK and Kindergarten classes, according to a new study out this week, ...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. — Broken Arrow Public Schools is combating overcrowded kindergarten classrooms by combining multiple age groups in a classroom. At Aspen Creek Early Childhood Center, there are two ...