Lakeland, FL -- How young is too young when it comes to assessing our kids' performance at school? A Lakeland pre-K has filed a petition asking state lawmakers to put the brakes on a new law that ...
Small changes could be coming to the controversial Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten evaluation system. Contact 5 first told you Monday, some teachers say it's flawed. Now the state is hoping to work toward ...
The practice round was rough. When Florida implemented a new Kindergarten Readiness test last fall — designed to determine if the state's thousands of Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK) programs were ...
--- Whether you make $10,000, or $10 million a year, Florida says your 4 or 5 year old is entitled to a free program called voluntary Pre-Kindergarten, also known as VPK. The goal is to give kids a ...
The statewide release of 2017-18 Kindergarten Readiness rates showed that 42% of Florida’s children entering Kindergarten were not ready for school and this data point has created significant ...
Nine years after Florida voters approved universal pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-olds, it's impossible to know if voters got the high-quality voluntary program they demanded. The state touts that ...