California Transitional Kindergarten Teachers Report Success

The Stockton (CA) Record (1/22, Reid) reports that "by all accounts" the transitional kindergarten program in California's Lodi Independent School District "is a booming success after the first half of its inaugural year. 'We won't really know how successful this has been until next year when these kids are in kindergarten and the kindergarten teachers can tell us how much more prepared they are (than those who were not in transitional kindergarten),' Lawrence Elementary Principal Carlos Vilafana said." Local teachers say "that their classes are moving along at a level that exceeded their expectations coming in."