This is the second in a series of stories on how inadequate staffing may be impeding California’s efforts to offer high-quality instruction to all 4-year-olds by 2025. Four-year-olds, many of whom ...

A proposed change would grant some relief to school districts and charters penalized for not complying with the average class size requirement for transitional kindergarten (TK), a grade level prior ...

But TK students were being tested using one designated for kindergarteners, which requires students to know how to read and write letters. Why it matters: Supporters of the measure said the test was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maria Arriaga, 4, whispers to her mom, Lourdes Rojas, at Regional Park. Parents and teachers are upset about LAUSD's plan to ...

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Despite statewide concerns about stagnant enrollment in California Transitional Kindergarten (TK) programs, those concerns don’t apply to the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District (SMMUSD), as ...

LAUSD has been fined $8.1 million after an independent audit uncovered classrooms in the district’s highly promoted transitional kindergarten program with too many students and not enough teachers’ ...