For Westlake City Schools, this means children must be 5 years old on or before Aug. 25 to register for kindergarten for the 2026-27 school year. That’s the district’s first day of instruction.

Is your child required to attend kindergarten? Here's when and what to know about changes for mandatory kindergarten attendance in New Jersey and who pays for it. While kindergarten has been a staple ...

Kindergarten students will no longer ease into school after the Washoe County School District eliminated a long-standing policy of starting its youngest students a week after everyone else. The ...

Ontario’s new kindergarten curriculum changes how kids will be taught to read, adds fractions and coding to math and even covers basic navigational skills. These expectations for the province’s ...

New York City has opened applications for kindergarten in public elementary schools for the 2026-2027 school year. Students enter kindergarten in September of the calendar year they turn 5 years old, ...

An outdoor play area sits at the heart of this ring-shaped concrete kindergarten in Puerto Rico, designed by local studio Toro Arquitectos to create "a safe, engaging, and functional environment" for ...

"Redshirting," or delaying a child's kindergarten entry by a year, is a practice used by some parents. Potential benefits include an initial boost in test scores and advantages in sports.

A 5-year-old girl discovered a cruel reality of kindergarten: No naps. “It was a shock,” her mom, Gimeka Gentry, tells TODAY.com. Gentry recorded her daughter McKenzie’s rude awakening after picking ...

One of my aggravating moments is when I read in a newspaper, or hear on a television newscast, the total misuse of the words “democracy” (noun), democratic (adjective), and Democrat (proper noun). How ...

DOHA: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) will open Al-Jiwan Kindergarten for Early Intervention this academic year (2025-26), marking Qatar’s first government-run kindergarten ...

When I was growing up in the Sacramento suburbs in the 1990s, kindergarten enrollment involved very little decision-making. My mother simply sent us to the elementary school closest to home. Now as a ...