STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City has opened applications for free, all-day pre-K and 3-K for the 2025-2026 school year. The programs, which provide free, full-day care and education, are part of a ...

The push to expand pre-kindergarten programs is on. Last school year, public pre-K programs received their biggest-ever boost in state funding. Enrollment in state pre-K programs nationwide increased ...

Today, New York City’s 1.1 million public-school students return to their classrooms—or, in the case of about seventy thousand four-year-olds enrolled in the city’s pre-K program, go to their ...

Naomi, 3, plays while attending pre-K at The Morris Foundation Child Development Center on Sept. 24, 2024. Fort Worth ISD and PreK Today partnered to provide pre-K to Fort Worth ISD students at ...

Starting in September, 80 primary schools around the world operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity will have universal pre-K for 4-year-olds. Shown here, pre-K students play at M.C.

In an announcement made Tuesday, June 3, IPS said they will start charging for pre-K in the 2025-26 school year. IPS was able to offer pre-K for free through a combination of state funded On My Way ...

A little more than a decade ago, Bill de Blasio, then the New York City public advocate preparing a run for mayor, sat at a window table in Bar Toto in Park Slope with his policy adviser Ursulina ...

IPS says it needs to charge for pre-K to keep the programs operating after COVID money dries up and the state budget failed to boost child care spending to close the gap IPS will implement a sliding ...

A new study suggests universal pre-K programs could increase parents' earnings. Researchers found that those who enrolled their kids in free pre-K made about 21% more Universal pre-K programs have ...

[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] A well-placed, orderly sandbox. Teachers who laugh often. Plenty of miniature tables and chairs. Those are markers of an ...

If there was ever a time to attend seriously to research concerning effects of early childhood education, this is it. If President Biden’s plan for universal state-run preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds ...

A DeLand preschool, perennially labeled “low performing” by the state, had reason to celebrate this year. The House Next Door earned the highest possible rating — “excellent” — under Florida’s new ...