Most classrooms in California’s transitional kindergarten program are stand-alone classes that may better prepare children for kindergarten than classes that combine transitional kindergarten and kindergarten students, according to a report released Wednesday.
Transitional kindergarten is a separate program for 4-year-olds who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 2 and miss the cut-off date for kindergarten. However, some schools combine those 4-year-olds in classes with kindergarten students, often because they have too few transitional kindergarten students to create separate classes.
The new report, Transitional Kindergarten in California, by the nonpartisan, nonprofit American Institutes for Research, follows an all-out effort by state legislators and early education advocates to preserve transitional kindergarten. Gov. Jerry Brown had proposed eliminating the program in the 2016-17 state budget, but a deal with lawmakers preserved it.
[For more of this story, written by Jeremy Hay, go to https://edsource.org/2016/repo...-kindergarten/566086]
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