Sign up for Staying Focused, our newsletter keeping readers up to speed on New York politics. Last week, the state legislature officially backed Governor Kathy Hochul ...

CHARLOTTE — Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is merging two administrative departments and moving 23 central office facilitators into classroom roles to streamline district operations, officials said.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island families will be among the beneficiaries of 1,000 new 3‑K seats set to roll out across the city, with six borough ZIP codes included in the expansion, the ...

Less than half, or 44%, of the state’s 3- and 4-year-olds participate in high-quality, publicly funded pre-K, according to Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children. An estimated 84,000 children are left ...

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Legislature, at the urging of Gov. Jim Pillen, passed a bill Friday to allow schools to once again suspend students in grades pre-K-2 for engaging in violent behavior capable of ...

Friday is the final day for parents to apply to New York City’s 3-K and pre-K programs for the 2026-27 school year. Expanding early childhood education was a central focus of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s ...

Beginning in the 2026–27 school year, two pilot campuses will transition to Pre-K to 8th grade Future 2 programs (HISD) Houston ISD is introducing Future 2 schools, a new Pre-K through 8 model focused ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer unveiled a new state budget proposal this week that includes a one-time $625 million shot in the arm for Michigan K-12 schools next year with things like reading and student ...

When: Warwick school board meeting, Feb. 3. What happened: Warwick’s officials are planning a partnership between high school family and consumer science teachers and the district’s pre-K program to ...

Kentucky minority Democrats are fleshing out their universal pre-K proposals. The plans would face a long road to passage in the GOP-led General Assembly. Raising the financial threshold for who ...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Democratic lawmakers in Kentucky have made early childhood education a top priority for this legislative session, with a goal of universal pre-K access by the 2034-35 school year, ...