After receiving increased funding through the passage of an operating referendum last fall, the Madison Metropolitan School District will begin offering full-day 4K (four-year-old kindergarten) programming for certain school boundaries in the 2021–22 school year.

Today, we discuss the importance of early childhood education and the possibility of a universal 4K program in Madison with Beth Graue, director of the Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at UW–Madison, and Savion Castro, vice president of the MMSD Board of Education.