California is expanding public education with transitional kindergarten. The move is drawing attention to some of the support services that many parents rely on, like after-school programs. clairetrageser looks at the shortage in our community.
If it’s fully implemented, the plan would make California a nationwide leader in providing early childhood education. But it’s missing a crucial piece — after-school care.
The San Diego Unified School District has more than doubled the number of TK classes this year to more than 185 classes across 118 schools. And the waitlists at aftercares have shot up, too. Across all the programs run by SAY San Diego, there are 2,085 kids on waitlists, almost twice as many as last year.
“When you look at the first six years of life and rapid brain development and all of the social and cognitive growth for kids, it's a wonderful opportunity,” Gannon Hornberger said. “We also know that working parents were really looking forward to being able to enroll their children in a 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. day”“It's frustrating, I know, for parents who were counting on that longer day of care,” Gannon Hornberger said.
She said after the state announced TK expansion, the YMCA looked at whether they could get licenses to care for younger kids at their afterschool program sites.
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