NEW YORK (AP) — Vaccination rates for U.S. kindergarteners dropped again last year, and federal officials are starting a new campaign to try to bring them up. Usually, 94% to 95% of kindergarteners ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) - The Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care has launched a new data dashboard demonstrating positive trends around the strong growth of Preschool Promise Program. The data ...

Elgin schools officials say they will be measuring student performance for the first time in full-day kindergarten and releasing the data later this summer. Roughly 2,700 students across 40 elementary ...

NEWPORT, Ky. (WKRC) - Alarming new data shows only 19% of Newport Independent Schools students were ready for kindergarten last school year. That puts Newport second-to-last in the state for ...

In a light and airy classroom at Early Partners preschool, in a renovated firehouse in New Orleans' Lower Garden District, three little boys are playing with blocks. Towers and walls rise from the ...

When Shanna Robinson teaches the preschoolers at her House of Prayers Learning Center, she and the teachers she employs take special care to make sure the children are ready for kindergarten, despite ...

More than 43,000 North Carolina kindergarten through third graders are meeting benchmarks in reading, compared to last year, new data shows. It's a sign of academic improvement as the state -- and ...

Amid the pandemic, the number of young children attending preschool has dropped to its lowest level in more than a quarter century. The decline threatens to derail decades of improvements in school ...