Belinda Churchill gets a lot of mileage out of a pizza. Math skills come from making a table and ranking everyone’s favorite topping. Self-control and listening skills come with an exercise in making ...

--- Whether you make $10,000, or $10 million a year, Florida says your 4 or 5 year old is entitled to a free program called voluntary Pre-Kindergarten, also known as VPK. The goal is to give kids a ...

Legislation that could reshape how Florida's 11,000 voluntary prekindergarten providers are assessed received strong support during a subcommittee hearing this week. House Bill 1193, sponsored by Rep.

Thousands of kids enrolled in the Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten program have learned lessons in literacy and social etiquette that better prepared them to excel at more than just finger-painting when ...

The practice round was rough. When Florida implemented a new Kindergarten Readiness test last fall — designed to determine if the state's thousands of Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK) programs were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two prominent childcare and VPK programs in DeSoto County have closed their doors in the last five months, leaving early learning ...

The Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program is designed to prepare 4-year-olds for kindergarten and develop the skills they need to become successful students as well as good readers. In VPK, the ...

Florida is raising the bar for voluntary pre-kindergarten providers in the hopes of helping better prepare children for kindergarten. But some early learning advocates fear that budget cuts are making ...

As the first year of Florida’s new Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten draws to a close, Marion County’s VPK program is being described as a tremendous success from parents and providers. When the 2006 summer ...