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Download full textVictoria Wang; Hanna Melnick; Melanie Leung-Gagné; Shaakira Parker; Marjorie Wechsler – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
California made a historic commitment to early childhood education in 2021 by providing universal prekindergarten (UPK) for all 4-year-olds by 2025-26 and expanding access for income-eligible 3-year-olds. California's UPK initiative includes multiple early learning programs, including transitional kindergarten (TK), the California State Preschool…
Descriptors: State Programs, State Legislation, Preschool Education, Equal Education
Hanna Melnick; Emma García – Learning Policy Institute, 2024
California recently committed to making prekindergarten (PreK) universal through the expansion of transitional kindergarten (TK) and other state-funded programs. Between 2021-22 and 2023-24, TK enrollment doubled, from about 75,000 to over 151,000 children. Approximately 59% of eligible 4-year-olds enrolled in TK in 2023-24. Across publicly funded…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Social Services
Garver, Karin; Weisenfeld, G. G.; Connors-Tadros, Lori; Hodges, Katherine; Melnick, Hanna; Plasencia, Sara – Learning Policy Institute, 2023
Most states in the United States operate their public preschool programs in a mixed delivery system that serves children in local education agencies (LEAs) as well as non-LEA settings, such as Head Start agencies, child care centers, private schools, and family child care homes. To inform state preschool administrators and policymakers as they…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, State Policy, School Districts, Delivery Systems
