SB 837: Transitional kindergarten: enrollment for 4-year-olds.

Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. Existing law requires, in the 201415 school year and each school year thereafter, and as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, a child who will have his or her fifth birthday between September 2 and December 2 to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school.

This bill, as a condition of receipt of apportionments for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, beginning in the 202021 school year, would require progressively younger 4-year-old pupils to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school, as provided, until, in the 202223 school year and each school year thereafter, the bill would require all 4-year-old pupils to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program maintained by a school district or charter school. The bill would authorize, from the 201516 school year to the 202122 school year, inclusive, a 4-year-old child who is not required to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program to be admitted to a transitional kindergarten program, as provided.