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What is the difference between the current TK program and the new universal transitional kindergarten program?
Currently, TK serves about 100,000 children, primarily those who turn 5 between Sept. 2 and Dec. 2. These are the students who narrowly miss the cutoff for regular kindergarten. The new $2.7 billion universal TK program, by contrast, will gradually be made available to every 4-year-old in California, eventually serving nearly 400,000 students. It will essentially become California’s version of a universal preschool program, available to all children regardless of income. For more information check out our latest white paper:

Here is a link to the same document
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Credit to Karen D’Souza for her article “How California’s New Universal Transitional Kindergarten Program will be Rolled Out” published on edsource.org for some of this research.