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Publication: CBS 5 KPIX San Francisco
Date: August 2021
SACRAMENTO (KPIX) — Thanks to an expansion of transitional kindergarten by Governor Gavin Newsom and state legislators, all four-year-olds California will be able to enroll in publicly-funded school for free, regardless of income.
It is a watershed moment for California, which has lagged behind other states in early childhood education.
But while seven in ten Californians polled this spring by Public Policy of California support state-funded preschool, not everyone agrees on how to do it.