Officials say the budget allocated $300 million to the Student Teacher Stipend Program and another $70 million to the Teacher ...

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.

In 2021, California embarked on a $2.7 billion plan to offer TK to all 4-year-olds by the 2025-2026 school year in what’s poised to be the largest free preschool program in the country.

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 ...

California has no set age for when children can be left alone, ... The California Department of Education has provided a checklist to help parents decide if their kids are ready to be left home alone.

Obtaining data from the California Department of Education (CDE) ... (TK) will be offered to all 4-year-olds, Gallagher wrote in a commentary on the PACE website. The state should collect data on the ...