Registration is open for Colorado's tuition-free preschool program for the 2026-27 school year. The program provides up to 15 hours of free preschool per week for children in the year before ...

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Washington’s free preschool program for low-income kids is shrinking. Amid a budget shortfall, state legislators cut about $60 million from the Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program, which ...

In Union City, N.J., children at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Center for Early Childhood Education sit with their teacher for a read-along. The full-day preschool, which operates during the school year, is ...

MULTNOMAH COUNTY, Ore. (KPTV) - Many local parents are urging Multnomah County leaders to protect the “Preschool For All” program which provides free preschool to 3- and 4-year-olds, regardless of ...

Morgan Barnaby / OPB Preschool For All supporters, clad in yellow and holding signs that read “Universal Preschool Now,” came out in droves to defend Multnomah County’s preschool program at a public ...

Multnomah County is contemplating major changes to the tax that funds its tuition-free preschool program. The Board of Commissioners held the first in a series of meetings on Preschool for All ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The director of Multnomah County's Preschool for All program has resigned, effective immediately. Leslee Barnes submitted her resignation on Wednesday after serving in the role since ...

Public funds were wasted on payments and awards made to child care providers enrolled in the statewide Preschool Promise program, according to an audit from the Secretary of State’s Office released ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Millions of dollars in funding for an Oregon preschool program have been wasted or mismanaged, according to state watchdogs. An audit released by the Oregon Secretary of ...

SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) — Auditors with the Oregon Secretary of State's Office found $1.4 million in potentially wasteful payments within the Preschool Promise Program, Secretary of State Tobias Read ...