When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Fast forward 13 ...
Abdiel, 4, celebrates his birthday during his first week of transitional kindergarten at Bill Libbon Elementary School in Santa Maria. Credit: Nick Forselles / Noozhawk photo On a sunny morning in ...
In 2021, California launched a $2.7 billion effort to expand transitional kindergarten, with the goal of making it available to every 4-year-old resident by the 2025-26 school year. Now, as the full ...
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 ...
California’s transitional kindergarten instruction should remain developmentally appropriate and prioritize play as a form of learning, the state emphasized in a proposed clarification of the ...
AB 1391, which was designed to get state funding for transitional kindergarten in basic aid districts, was stopped in appropriations as it made its way through the California Legislature. "I was ...
Amanda Smith, a behavioral specialist, tends to a child at Moore Learning Preschool and Childcare Center in Elk Grove on Feb. 6, 2026. (Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters) This story was ...
Transitional kindergarten student Vivienne Villarreal, left, and her classmates practice handwriting at Fremont School in Modesto. California’s Transitional Kindergarten expands, but families face ...
This story is part of SLO Tribune's Parents Central, our expanding coverage for local parents. We're tackling issues that matter to you the most, explaining the "what it means," from school budgets to ...
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