Maryland school systems that complain about not having enough funding and space to set up all-day kindergarten classes should take a look at Prince George's County, said state school Superintendent ...

The Upper Perkiomen School District could expand its pilot all-day kindergarten in fall 2002 to include all kindergarten pupils in the district, officials said. Upper Perkiomen has been offering ...

Children from low-income or immigrant families who attended full-day kindergarten in Montgomery County last year did significantly better than their counterparts in half-day classes, according to the ...

School board members in Schaumburg-based District 54 are expected to vote Thursday on whether to start a kindergarten program where pupils would be taught in English and Japanese. If approved, the ...

A chapter of the Indiana Civil Liberties Union wants the Duneland School Board to change its plan to charge parents $2,000 to send children to an all-day kindergarten program. Richard Busse, an ...

One of the nation’s leading early childhood researchers told a General Assembly committee yesterday that the most effective way Maryland could improve reading achievement would be to offer full-day ...

Enough parents have chosen half-day kindergarten to ensure that every area in the Northampton Area School District will have at least one half-day session next term. About 73 percent of the children ...

That boy over there who’s acting out, can’t count to 20 and doesn’t know his letters? Probably born in the late fall, possibly as late as Christmas. He’s about 4 1/2 years old. Probably should have ...

There are fewer kindergarten students having to play catch-up to their more-mature classmates this year, showing more of the youngsters starting school are ready to do so, according to a survey of ...