Kids First will plug a critical summer gap for 24 preschoolers deemed at-risk, helping with that all-important transition to kindergarten. The city of Aspen department this week announced the ...

Nebraska state-funded preschool programs serve only 4 percent of eligible 4-year-olds in the state, according to a yearbook issued by the National Institute for Early Education Research. Nebraska's ...

Federal funds could begin running dry Saturday that help tens of millions of Americans to buy food for their families and ...

Two small elementary districts say they don’t have enough funding to support Gov. Newsom’s five-year plan for universal transitional kindergarten. Rosie Monson, mom of three, hoped her youngest ...

First-graders Oliver Hootman and Eva Jimenez Flores practice reading word by word at Carrisa Plains Elementary School with help from Jani Klasfeld, in September 2023. David Middlecamp ...