Making good on a promise from two years ago, Los Angeles Unified has increased the number of preschool seats on its campuses.

The district more than DOUBLED the number of students in its Expanded Transitional Kindergarten program, known as ETK, which includes all children who turn 4 during the school year, including special needs children. 

Almost 4000 more kids are in classes this year, which is a significant change, considering the district that has cut thousands of early education seats in previous years.  

Earlier this week, Take Two's Deepa Fernandes visited one of the new ETK classes at Glassell Park Elementary with Dean Tagawa who runs Early Education for LA Unified.

It's a classroom, he pointed out, including  children with special needs.

"Anything from being born premature and having some developmental delays, some of them might need additional speech, others might need physical therapy."

According to Tagawa, 59 of the ETK classrooms have a special ED teacher and special ed AIDE right there in the classroom in addition to the regular teacher.

Kim Pattillo Brownson, vice president of policy and strategy at First 5 LA, joined Take Two over the phone for more.