The first cohort of Pre-K 4 SA students had better attendance and received higher third-grade STAAR exam scores than students who were not enrolled in public prekindergarten, according to new data.

It’s back to school today for San Antonio’s sales tax funded Pre-K 4 SA program, and CEO Sarah Baray says after the Legislature called for high quality early childhood programs in every public school district, San Antonio’s program is ready to lead the way, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Resident’s 2012 vote to enhance San Antonio’s workforce is paying off, according to a study released by The University of Texas-San Antonio.

During the school year, the Pre-K 4 SA North Center had 97 students for whom English is a second language. Collectively, they speak nearly 40 dialects of 20 languages at home. Many of them started the school year with little or no English vocabulary.

After the passage of House Bill 3, Texas becomes one of only a dozen states offering full-day pre-K. Pre-K 4 SA joins educators around the state in celebrating this landmark legislation.

I’m about 30 years late to the phonics wars, but apparently there’s still plenty to discuss.

The city’s Pre-K 4 SA and United Way of San Antonio announced a plan Thursday to create a network for local child care providers.

Seattle, Cincinnati and San Antonio are just three of a growing number of cities to develop high-quality public preschool programs.

In decades studying 15,000 classrooms, early education expert Robert Pianta has discovered that two out of every five children entering kindergarten are unprepared in critical areas of social skills, math, and self-regulation.

No other area of education has been scrutinized as much as early childhood education. Despite five decades of academic research, some continue to dispute the benefits of early learning to overall student success.