A child wears a mask while painting at Voyages Preschool in Los Angeles. The state’s new education master plan sets standards and priorities to make quality prekindergarten accessible throughout ...

California would have to create space for thousands more preschoolers if it were to offer preschool to all 4-year-olds, as proposed in an initiative that state voters rejected in November ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The California legislature will debate three Assembly bills in the upcoming session that would open up preschool options for thousands of California families. Assemblyman ...

But Preschool California, a nonprofit organization and big backer of the initiative, believes as few as 25 percent of 4-year-olds are enrolled in what the group considers quality preschools.

California was ranked 14th in access to preschool for 4-year-olds, with about 37 percent enrolled in California State Preschool, ... California ranks eighth in funding per child, but continues to lag ...

In a move that would broadly expand public education, California Democrats on Tuesday proposed creating universal preschool for 4-year-olds, to try to enroll more children from immigrant and low ...

That kind of integration of social and emotional learning, rather than presenting the concepts in an “add-on” unit that teachers are supposed to insert into their schedules, is how skill-building is ...

The resounding defeat of California’s Proposition 82, which sought to offer all 4-year-olds in California access to free half-day preschool, appears to be a big blow to advocates of universal ...