IRVING – As enrollment for next school year begins, there’s a new push across Dallas-Fort Worth to get children into pre-Kindergarten classes. Irving ISD is starting a new program aimed at boosting ...

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At President Biden’s urging, the House has voted to embark on a massive social experiment — universal pre-K for all 3-year-olds and 4-year-olds in the United States. If the Senate concurs, we will be ...

A little more than a decade ago, Bill de Blasio, then the New York City public advocate preparing a run for mayor, sat at a window table in Bar Toto in Park Slope with his policy adviser Ursulina ...

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Around 9,000 more kids have been enrolled in free, universal state-funded pre-K as of October 2025 than at this time last year, though an updated enrollment percentage has not yet been calculated.