One morning last week, before my kids Desmond and Nini had begun their home-school kindergarten day, they were playing on the floor with a random assemblage of building blocks, figurines and toy ...

However, attending private or homeschool kindergarten would count. Currently, children are not required to enroll in school until they are 6 years old and eligible for first grade. There have been ...

“I started homeschooling my oldest when she was four,” she said. “She was an early reader, so I just started kindergarten with her. We were living in Seattle at the time.

Kennedy defends the mandatory kindergarten bill as being a “totally separate and unrelated conversation” from having parents and guardians of home school, private and parochial children ...