When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, children stopped going to child care centers and their workers no longer had a source of income; child care programs that had been open for years or even decades were forced to shut down.
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California has set aside money to expand subsidized child care to serve more than 100,000 more children but just allocating money doesn't guarantee it can go to use.
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Students in Emily Rubin s Transitional Kindergarten class at Glenview Elementary in Oakland rest on new nap time mats funded through DonorsChoose.org.
Courtesy of Emily Rubin/Oakland Unified
Students in Emily Rubin s Transitional Kindergarten class at Glenview Elementary in Oakland rest on new nap time mats funded through DonorsChoose.org.
May 13, 2021
Early childhood advocates, lawmakers and the governor are pushing to gradually expand transitional kindergarten (TK) to all the state’s 4-year-olds. But the moves are raising issues, such as the viability of the child care system and whether expanded TK might be too academic for younger 4-year-olds.