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 ...

On one wall, there’s a tank that houses two snakes — affectionately named Hot Chocolate and Ice Cream. This is San Luis ...

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 ...

Universal TK provides a free, high-quality preschool option for all California families with 4-year-olds. This is critical in terms of access and affordability and ensures that more families can ...

The challenge is that children at this age are still developing language skills. In the past, students would sometimes cry ...

Break out the crayons and finger paint: Every 4-year-old in California is now eligible for transitional kindergarten. Fifteen years after a handful of school districts opened the first TK classrooms, ...

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] ...

The principal at Harding University Partnership School says 136 students are enrolled so far in the Santa Barbara district's transitional kindergarten program for the upcoming year. Credit: Grace ...

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, ...

First-graders Oliver Hootman and Eva Jimenez Flores practice reading word by word at Carrisa Plains Elementary School with help from Jani Klasfeld, in September 2023. David Middlecamp ...

Charter schools, defined: Charter schools are free, taxpayer-funded schools run by an independent nonprofit organization and are exempt from some of the laws that govern traditional public schools.