Over the past month, a group of Montana educators has begun hashing out new rules that would make it easier for public school districts to direct state funding toward pre-kindergarten programs for ...

A bill now in the California Legislature would require children to be 5 years old by Sept. 1, in order for them to enter kindergarten, which is three months earlier than what current law outlines.

The rules keep changing for how kindergarten readiness is measured in Florida. Here is an at-a-glance look at changes over the years: — 1997-1999: Each of Florida’s 67 counties uses its own system to ...