New federal data shows about two-thirds of the nation’s 3- to 5-year-olds are on track to enter kindergarten. But being ready for school involves a lot more than a child’s ability to count or recite ...

Is your child required to attend kindergarten? Here's when and what to know about changes for mandatory kindergarten attendance in New Jersey and who pays for it. While kindergarten has been a staple ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The past few years, California has been all about the ABCs, 1-2-3s and the wheels on the bus, investing more than $5 ...

Kindergarten students will no longer ease into school after the Washoe County School District eliminated a long-standing policy of starting its youngest students a week after everyone else. The ...

Ontario’s new kindergarten curriculum changes how kids will be taught to read, adds fractions and coding to math and even covers basic navigational skills. These expectations for the province’s ...

New York City has opened applications for kindergarten in public elementary schools for the 2026-2027 school year. Students enter kindergarten in September of the calendar year they turn 5 years old, ...

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create "a safe, engaging, and functional environment" for ...

Russia attacked Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, hitting a kindergarten with children in attendance. Ukraine’s president said all children have been evacuated, with many ...

DOHA: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) will open Al-Jiwan Kindergarten for Early Intervention this academic year (2025-26), marking Qatar’s first government-run kindergarten ...

When I was growing up in the Sacramento suburbs in the 1990s, kindergarten enrollment involved very little decision-making. My mother simply sent us to the elementary school closest to home. Now as a ...

Jennifer Lilintahl said she knew her 5-year-old daughter wasn't ready to learn how to read with other kids her age in the kindergarten classes last school year at Lafayette Elementary School in the ...