As a result of a new state law, California schools instituted transitional kindergarten to give 4-year-olds who were previously eligible for kindergarten an extra year to adjust to school and ...

Most classrooms in California’s transitional kindergarten program are stand-alone classes that may better prepare children for kindergarten than classes that combine transitional kindergarten and ...

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Lisa Harmison is a 32-year teaching veteran, but on Tuesday, she was a part of something new. Today was the first day of class for a new Los Angeles Unified School District program called expanded ...

Torrance Elementary School has added four additional four new classrooms and a playground for their TK and kindergarten ...

When you think back to your own kindergarten experience, it probably involved a half-day program and plenty of fun activities — finger painting, sand play and nap time. Likely the hardest parts were ...

It’s halfway through the school year, but districts throughout the state are welcoming students to their first day of school. That’s because a relatively new kindergarten program is taking off in the ...

Lansing — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday it's not appropriate for kindergarten classes to have 30 students in them after a Detroit News investigation documented class sizes across Michigan that ...

The Loyola Early Learning Center is expanding into a full-fledged school. Sign up for our Daily eBlast to get coverage on Black communities from the media company who has been doing it right for over ...

Some teachers are making the switch from private preschools to transitional kindergarten. Others come from upper grades. Many ...

On the calendar in Room 202 at Mission Education Center, there’s a sad face scribbled across Oct. 31. For the 4-year-olds in the Upper Noe school’s transitional kindergarten classroom, Halloween won’t ...

California is in the middle of an ambitious plan to offer transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the ...