Jun. 21—At least two local early childhood education centers are a part of a statewide expansion of the Alabama First Class Pre-K program. The classrooms included in this first round are part of ...

As a new group of pre-K students started classes Thursday throughout Fort Wayne Community Schools, kindergarten teachers at one building approached the district’s manager of early learning and gushed ...

l to charge tuition for pre-kindergarteners underscores a broader dilemma: As demand for pre-K mounts, inadequate funding makes it increasingly difficult for public schools to offer the early ...

MONTGOMERY -- Gov. Bob Riley said Thursday that he wants to boost state spending on pre-kindergarten to $80 million a year by 2011, increasing the number of 4-year-olds enrolled in the program by more ...

GREENWICH — Julia McCann said Greenwich Public Schools pre-kindergarten teachers are already "stretched thin." That's why McCann, who has a nonverbal 3-year-old enrolled in the school district's pre-K ...