Determining whether your child is the right age for kindergarten can be difficult. While most five-year-olds are ready to take the step to full-time classroom learning, some are not — and that’s OK.

In 2021, California launched a $2.7 billion effort to expand transitional kindergarten, with the goal of making it available to every 4-year-old resident by the 2025-26 school year. Now, as the full ...

With the start of the school year looming, some parents will choose to delay the start of their child’s educational experience, keeping them in day care or out of school entirely for another year. As ...

You may assume that your child will begin kindergarten shortly after their 5th birthday, but that's not always the case. Depending on where your school places its age cutoff date for enrollment, your ...

How can parents really prepare their kids for kindergarten? Take advice from a teacher who says parents need to do one important thing: “Tell your kid no.” “‘No’ is not a bad word,” Emily Perkins, a ...

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla. — The class of 2036 is getting registered for kindergarten! The School District of Palm Beach County is launching a bigger effort than ever before to make sure students are ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Sixty-five percent of kindergarten-age children in Franklin County do not have a basic grasp of letters and numbers, prompting Ohio to say they’re not ready for kindergarten.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Fewer Ohio kindergarteners demonstrated readiness for school in the 2023-2024 school year compared 2020-2021, around the time the COVID-19 pandemic started, a new report showed. The ...

Parents preparing to send their kids to kindergarten this fall should add one more item to their checklist: ensuring their children are completely potty trained. Starting May 1, toilet training will ...