He said the key is to have children in a safe, supportive, high-quality learning environment. This includes kindergarten, child care, and preschool programs.

Many parents are faced with the choice of delaying their child's entry into kindergarten by an extra year because of late birthdays in the hope that they will be more "ready." Barbara A. Willer ...

Belleville, East St. Louis and other metro-east educators explain how to know if your child is ready for kindergarten, and how to help your child prepare.

This fall at least 200,000 California students are expected to enroll in transitional kindergarten, which serves as a bridge ...

The Holy Cross Ministries’ School Readiness Program is working to help kids prepare for kindergarten by equipping them with ...

Five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the oldest of the “pandemic babies” – born in early 2020 – are heading ...

The program was once designed to serve only children who missed the kindergarten age cutoff. Now it's an option, alongside Head Start, the California State Preschool Program and private preschool, to ...

Many of these children missed the worst of the pandemic, even going to group childcare at an early age without masks.

Deciding when to send a child to kindergarten can be difficult for parents. Should a gifted child start at age 4 so she doesn't get bored? Should a less precocious child wait until he's 6 so he ...

For those children with fall birthdays, transitional kindergarten gives an extra year of schooling before they enter regular kindergarten. Districts receive state funds for transitional kindergarten ...

With over half of Franklin County children unprepared for kindergarten, advocates are calling for a levy to support early childhood education.