The program comes three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring any school district offering kindergarten to also provide transitional kindergarten for all four-year-olds by the 2025-2…
Paraeducator Elsa Cintora high-fives student Fatima Khan, 4, after completing a puzzle in the transitional kindergarten program at Westwood Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., on Sept. 22, 2023. In one of the first-in-the-state programs, San Jose State University will offer a new teaching credential this fall for educators interested in teaching three-year-olds through third graders.
Heather Lattimer, dean of the university’s college of education, said the college’s faculty collaborated across the college’s child and adolescent development, special education and teacher education departments to quickly develop the “highly inclusive program.” The program comes three years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law requiring any school district offering kindergarten to also provide transitional kindergarten for all four-year-olds by the 2025-26 school year.aims to make free, high-quality early education available to every 4-year-old in the state — nearly 400,000 – becoming the largest universal preschool program in the country.
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