Five-year-old Marlaina Paulding likes playing in the tents in her VPK classroom at Felix A. Williams Elementary School in Martin County. She likes learning the alphabet and numbers, and the Spanish ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Nikolai Vitti highlighted the district's VPK program Tuesday during a meeting with school board members and community leaders. The ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The cost of child care is on the rise and research shows it’s largely due to the pandemic. But in Florida, there is the option of free volunteer pre-kindergarten, also known as ...

Many parents of Pre-K students are weighing their options for how to get the best and safest education for their kids. One parent, Karen Douglas, has chosen to keep her 4-year-old son home for the ...

The practice round was rough. When Florida implemented a new Kindergarten Readiness test last fall — designed to determine if the state's thousands of Voluntary PreKindergarten (VPK) programs were ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — There’s increasing concern over the number of dollars that are going into Florida’s Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Program (VPK). VPK is a free program designed to give children ...

Florida's first voluntary prekindergarten program began in 2005. The program is free for all 4-year-olds. School-readiness test scores show VPK prepares children for school. This story was updated to ...