Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chronic student absenteeism remains a significant challenge in the nation’s schools. While the percentage of chronically absent ...

A measles, mumps and rubella, or MMR, vaccine is at a pediatric clinic in Greenbrae, Calif. (Eric Risberg / Associated Press) Despite having some of the nation's strictest school vaccination laws, ...

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Fargo educators knew offering full-day kindergarten to its neediest students would produce results. But the gains being made in reading by those students are more than even educators expected, ...

More than 43,000 North Carolina kindergarten through third graders are meeting benchmarks in reading, compared to last year, new data shows. It's a sign of academic improvement as the state -- and ...

GREENWICH — Because Greenwich had fewer births in 2019 and the state now has a new age cutoff for kids to be able to enter kindergarten, the district saw its kindergarten enrollment number decline ...

GREENWICH — Greenwich Public Schools' student population has declined by around 100 students over the past year, but part of the change can be laid at the state's door, officials said. Superintendent ...

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Dawn Payne, a science and music teacher at Buttonwillow Union Elementary in Kern County, teaches a kindergarten class a lesson about shapes on March 27, 2023. (file ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. The past few years, California has been all about the ABCs, 1-2-3s and the wheels on the bus, investing more than $5 ...