By these metrics, California's TK program scored just a 3 out of 10, in part for having a maximum class size of 24 4-year-olds and an average 12-to-1 student to staff ratio. Gov.

The NIEER report scored California’s TK program a mere 3 out of 10 criteria, largely for having a crowded class size of 24 children in a classroom and an average 12-to-1 student-to-staff ratio ...

Currently, California, which has almost 3 million children under the age of 5, trails behind other states in terms of access to early education, with only 37% enrolled in transitional kindergarten and ...

The report found that specifically Head Start centers in California have lost approximately 42,000 preschoolers, and state preschools have seen a decline of around 9,000 4-year-olds since the TK ...