Kayla Simon, a preschool teacher at Lily Pad Learning Center, says she finds joy and fulfillment in nurturing the kids who ...

In 2014, Congress appropriated $250 million for a program offering preschool grants for states that apply for them. States with small state-funded preschool programs may apply for development grants, ...

Almost every state has now been awarded a share of a federal grant intended to help pay for strategic planning in its early-childhood system. The Preschool Development Grants, which were awarded last ...

As taxpayers, parents and educators debate the value of public preschool for every child, a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers finds for the first time that middle-class children -- not ...

The children file into Martha Feddern’s high school child-development preschool lab one or two at a time, looking apprehensive. Each is led in by a teenage student who has been waiting at the entrance ...

After 40 years of operation, the Healdsburg Child Development Preschool, which serves mostly low-income, Latino families, is being forced to shut down. After 40 years of operation, a Healdsburg ...

The federal Preschool Development Grants are back, but they offer substantive differences from the legacy program created during the Obama administration. The grant application, released Friday, ...

Lorna Kellogg was eight months’ pregnant, in the audience at the University of Colorado’s holiday concert. The brass band came on stage. Suddenly, she could feel the beat inside her body. Literally.