new report<\/a>, researchers found both programs lacked several quality measures.<\/p>\nThe National Institute for Early Education Research, out of Rutgers University, scores public preschool programs across the country on a series of benchmarks, including class sizes and teacher training. While transitional kindergarten met three out of 10 benchmarks last year, the state preschool program met six out of 10.<\/p>\n
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Georgia and five other states met 10 out of the 10 benchmarks.<\/p>\n
Reporting by LAist earlier this year found that while the state has spent billions on rolling out transitional kindergarten \u2014 a new grade that became available to all 4-year-olds starting this past fall \u2014 the state hasn\u2019t set up a formal plan to evaluate it. One of the measures of quality the researchers look at is a quality improvement system.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly high-quality early care and education programs support children\u2019s development enough to result in lasting academic and other gains that ultimately deliver savings for taxpayers,\u201d said Allison Friedman-Krauss, lead author of the report.<\/p>\n
The report comes as new enrollment numbers<\/a> for this school year show enrollment in transitional kindergarten grew 20% compared to last school year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While enrollment for public preschool programs grows in California, researchers say they lag behind other states when it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,47014,121216,31267],"class_list":{"0":"post-281950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-california-preschool","12":"tag-nieer","13":"tag-transitional-kindergarten"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}