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 ...

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California needs a lot more teachers and aides to fill transitional kindergarten classrooms, but advocates say early childhood educators who have the experience and desire to step into those jobs are ...