In summary The state mandates transitional kindergarten, but isn’t paying the tab for a small portion of wealthy school districts. Some are balking. Lea este artículo en español. In a major shift for early education, California is expanding its transitional kindergarten program to eventually include all 4-year-olds. While most…
(NewsNation) — Recruiting veterans and first responders. Offering $60,000 starting salaries. Providing student loan forgiveness. Helping with mortgages. Every state in the country is coming up with solutions to combat the teacher shortage. Across the country, there are 36,000 teacher vacancies, from kindergarten through high school, and another 163,000…
Kindergarten teachers in Brookline are criticizing recent changes in the classroom, saying they’re making kids increasingly anxious and losing joy in learning, and may be working against the district’s equity goals. “It is now common to hear their little voices announce to us, ‘I don’t know how to…
For most parents, the smaller the class size the better when it comes to early education. But that apparently doesn’t apply to Megan Jessens, who’s got 80,000 students and is making a difference for each one. A former kindergarten and now part-time pre-k teacher, Jessens goes live on…
State leaders have approved a rollout of universal transitional kindergarten over the next few years, but San Diego Unified will jump ahead and offer it to all 4-year-olds this fall. Meanwhile at least five San Diego County districts do not offer transitional kindergarten and say they don’t plan…
About 42% of kindergarteners across Maryland are considered academically ready for the classroom this year. That’s an improvement on the state Kindergarten Readiness Assessment when only 40% were academically prepared last year, Maryland State Board of Education data shows. But not nearly enough children are academically prepared for…
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — New numbers show only about half of Palm Beach County kindergarten students were considered “kindergarten-ready” when they entered elementary school this year. It comes as parents of Florida 4-year-olds are getting their kids enrolled in voluntary pre-kindergarten, or VPK, for next school year.…
The new kindergarten co-located at Docklands Primary School was officially opened last month with a visit from Minister for Early Childhood Ingrid Stitt. Minister Stitt joined students and educators, Member for Northern Metropolitan Sheena Watt and Docklands Primary School principal Adam Bright in celebrating the important milestone for…