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 ...

This year, every 4-year-old in California can enter transitional kindergarten at their local school district. But fewer parents know about TK, and that it can be an option for their family, than they ...

San Diego Unified School District leaders Monday announced that free transitional kindergarten is being expanded for the next ...

The number of students enrolled in California’s ambitious universal preschool program — a new grade for 4-year-olds called transitional kindergarten — has doubled in size over the last two years, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – California educators and childcare advocates are protesting Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to scrap a new program for children who are no longer old enough for kindergarten. In his plan ...

Landmark studies of preschool programs in the 1960s and 70s showed that they could make a big difference for children from low-income families. But more recent experimental studies of preschool don’t ...