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 ...

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 ...

Black families may be less likely to enroll in California’s universal transitional kindergarten program than other groups, according to a new study from UC Berkeley. Some 64,000 new children are ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2023, the Napa Valley Unified School District has contracted with Benicia-based In Harmony Music to provide music ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...