Elly Yu | LAist

California’s transitional kindergarten expansion promised high-quality early learning for every child — but Sara Hinkley cautioned LAist that “quality” will look very different depending on ZIP code.

“Local districts that can raise money locally, that can issue voter-approved general obligation bonds to retrofit these facilities, will have better TK facilities,” Hinkley said. Districts that can’t—typically those serving the children TK was most designed to reach—will fall further behind. The risk, as Hinkley put it, is that the program reproduces the same inequities it was meant to correct.