Communities across Indiana are struggling to solve one of the state's largest challenges: How to help families get access to ...

Does your state require kindergarten attendance for children? Here's when and what to know about mandatory free full day ...

Legislators are renewing a push after nearly a half dozen failed attempts to make kindergarten in California mandatory, ...

Backstory: From being out of town the day the Palisades fire started to reports her fire department glossed over serious ...

But kindergarten, a staple of elementary schools for more than a century, remains optional. Despite nearly a half dozen legislative attempts to require it, California is one of 32 states that doesn’t ...

St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, is credited with saying “Give me a child until he is seven and I ...

When it comes to children’s education, state and Clark County education leaders are doubling down on their efforts to improve graduation rates and test scores, including expanding preschool.

Registration is open for Colorado's tuition-free preschool program for the 2026-27 school year. The program provides up to 15 hours of free preschool per week for children in the year before ...

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Head Start preschool programs in the Big Bend area may close due to the federal government shutdown. Federal funding from the Department of Health and Human Services accounts for 80% of the program's ...

Children play during class at the Coleman Center for Families and Children in Petal, Miss., on Thursday, July 24, 2025. (Eric J. Shelton/Mississippi Today via AP) PETAL, Miss. (AP) — Preschoolers ...

Washington’s free preschool program for low-income kids is shrinking. Amid a budget shortfall, state legislators cut about $60 million from the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, which ...