California Adds Transitional Grade To Ensure Students Are Prepared For Kindergarten

The Huffington Post (11/10) reports that California officials are rolling out a "new grade" before kindergarten called "Transitional Kindergarten" which "would place students who turn 5 between September and December in kindergarten for two years." The program "would move the cutoff birthday from December to September so that children who are not yet 5 years old would not officially enter kindergarten -- California was one of the few states where 4-year-olds could start in the K-12 system, as long as they turned 5 by the beginning of December."