AB 1391, which was designed to get state funding for transitional kindergarten in basic aid districts, was stopped in appropriations as it made its way through the California Legislature.

"I was devastated," said Fiona Lloyd-Moffett, a transitional kindergarten teacher in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District. "I probably wept for days... It's so close to my heart because it, it's not just our district. It's children all over California."

"It was heartbreaking. It stopped me dead in my tracks," said Monica Garcia, a transitional kindergarten teacher in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District.

Assembly Member Dawn Addis authored the bill after budget constraints forced the San Luis Coastal Unified School District to consider cutting transitional kindergarten.

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