The full effect on the child care sector is still uncertain. California allowed child care centers that receive subsidies to ...

The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

Where can some of Chicago’s youngest students be exposed to French and Spanish, a Juilliard fine arts program and MIT-influenced science lessons all while getting a jump on potty training and an ...

First lady Jill Biden looks on as Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin holds a dinosaur while 4-year-old Amadeus Pham "feeds" L and M letters to the creature during an alphabet exercise at Maxwell ...

The early years are critical to children's development, and as that awareness has grown, so has interest in preschool. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, more than two-thirds of U.S. 4-year-olds were ...

A new report finds enrollment in transitional kindergarten is rising in L.A. County, but community preschools are closing.

Wake County officials unveiled a plan Wednesday to expand tuition-free pre-kindergarten offerings to thousands of 3-year-olds living within 200% of the poverty line. Right now, that would be about ...

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