Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. The Observer editorial board Common sense tells us that universal pre-K programs are ...

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 ...

Pre-K teacher Renee Bryant teaches a gingerbread lesson in the fall of 2022. This story first appeared in James Farrell's weekly Education newsletter, out Mondays. Sign up here to get it first to your ...

Starting in September, 80 primary schools around the world operated by the Department of Defense Education Activity will have universal pre-K for 4-year-olds. Shown here, pre-K students play at M.C.

Is free preschool a constitutional right? Seventy percent of voters in New Mexico think so, and they’re not the only ones getting behind increasingly popular universal pre-K policies. This November, ...

A DeLand preschool, perennially labeled “low performing” by the state, had reason to celebrate this year. The House Next Door earned the highest possible rating — “excellent” — under Florida’s new ...

On a sunny afternoon in April, I sat on a bench at New York’s City Hall, waiting to interview Mayor Bill de Blasio. He breezed by in shirtsleeves, surrounded by grim-looking advisers. The mayor, too, ...

After a decade of planning, the Springfield Public Schools have achieved the goal of making free universal pre-kindergarten education available to every 3 and 4 year old in the city - becoming the ...

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.