BISMARCK - Another push is under way to have the state pay for all-day, everyday kindergarten, with backers saying it would more than pay for itself. One supporter told legislators on Tuesday that it ...

Four Marin school districts will offer a year of free public pre-kindergarten classes for 4-year-olds under plans detailed this week. The programs in the San Rafael, Novato, Ross Valley and Mill ...

Early childhood advocates were elated by Obama’s State of the Union proposal to vastly expand our infrastructure of early childhood programs. Economists like Nobel laureate James Heckman have long ...

The Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 Board of Education last week held off on voting on a plan that would eventually add full-day kindergarten at each elementary school. The board on July 15 was ...

In December, a blue-ribbon commission delivered a plan for California education that you may have missed, what with the surge in COVID-19 and a “stolen” presidential election sucking up media oxygen.

Last month, the Biden campaign released a plan to implement universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds to “cultivate the potential of young children” and “laying a strong foundation” for their ...