PLEASANT HILL, Calif. – The start of a new school year brings new changes to California public schools, with transitional kindergarten now universally available for the first time.
The 2025-2026 school year marks the state’s completion of expanding transitional kindergarten, or TK.
This means local school districts are required to make TK available to all children who will have their fourth birthday by September 1st of the school year. The California Department of Education has spent millions in grants to local districts to make the transition over the past several years.…