It was roughly three weeks ago when the founder and owner of Brownsville Preparatory Institute learned the state would not allow virtual or distance learning for children enrolled in the state's ...

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 ...

MacKenzie Lewis finds it very rewarding when one of the 4-year-old students she’s working with at Viera High School’s Hawk's Nest VPK program begins to understand what she’s teaching them. “I love ...

When it comes to raising children there sure is no magical parenting handbook that can help you, but we do our best to make sure we tailor our parenting style for our child’s individual needs. Let’s ...

Don’t forget to register your child for Florida’s free Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (VPK). The Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (VPK), implemented in 2002 in order to give all of Florida’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TALLAHASSEE – A bill revamping the VPK ...

Malcolm McKey and a dozen other voluntary pre-kindergarten students sit crisscross applesauce in their Lincoln Park Primary classroom Wednesday afternoon and clap in unison as they count to 20. 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 ...

Registration is now open for the School District of Lee County summer pre-voluntary kindergarten program, with classes available in Lehigh. Head Start Program Coordinator Tiffany Franklin said the ...

Registration is now open for a shortened summer Voluntary Prekindergarten program, which is being offered at Sunshine Elementary School and the Early Childhood Learning Center. Head Start Program ...