Sponsored message
Logged in as
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
 — 
See All Episodes
Subscribe

Hey, LA listener!

Download our app for the optimal streaming experience

Apple Store logo Google play logo
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
Take Two

Despite benefits of full-day preschool, most state programs are half day

By Take Two Staff
Published Jan 24, 2014
Blanca Romero does a reading exercise with Jayden, her 4-year old son. Jayden attends El Sereno Elementary's state PreK program. His mother loves the program, even though it is only for 3 hours per day.
Blanca Romero does a reading exercise with Jayden, her 4-year old son. Jayden attends El Sereno Elementary's state PreK program. His mother loves the program, even though it is only for 3 hours per day.
(
Deepa Fernandes/KPCC
)
Ms DeLelio is starting her three-hour afternoon class at 11.30am. She teaches El Sereno Elementary's state PreK program to 23 children from 8am-11am and 23 children from 11.30am-2.30pm.
Ms DeLelio is starting her three-hour afternoon class at 11.30am. She teaches El Sereno Elementary's state PreK program to 23 children from 8am-11am and 23 children from 11.30am-2.30pm.
(
Deepa Fernandes / KPCC
)

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

Get LA News Updates Daily

We brief you on what you need to know about L.A. today.
Listen 4:21
Despite benefits of full-day preschool, most state programs are half day

Last year, California subsidized preschool for about 135-thousand children - nearly 70 percent of them in half day classes.  Monday through Friday, they attend school for three hours a day - either in the morning or the afternoon.  

KPCC's Deepa Fernandes looked into what can be achieved in just a few hours - and how working parents coordinate such a short school day.