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 ...

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 law restricts preschools from expelling kids, yet an increase in behavioral problems since the pandemic is proving a big challenge for teachers.

A San Diego-area church and its preschool will rejoin a California food assistance program in a settlement of a religious discrimination lawsuit over the church’s rejection of a federal ...