Whether your child participated in a preschool program or not, kindergarten can feel like the first real year of grade school. You might find yourself buying a backpack and the supplies that fill it, ...

About 7:45 a.m. the 4-year-olds in Lourdes Serrano’s transitional kindergarten class realized they would be braving their first day of school alone. “I don’t want to go to school,” one student said ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Over the past month, a group of Montana educators has begun hashing out new rules that would make ...