HISD said the program will be treated as a separate grade level, which will be between kindergarten and first grade, with a new curriculum for students who are behind in reading.
There's a story out of Virginia that we were able to wrap our arms around.
"I dropped them off at school ... I cried because I felt like I was sending her into a petri dish," Heidi Kim said.
Some of the littlest learners are missing from classrooms across the Houston area as districts are reporting drastic drops in enrollment numbers.
The mother said her child was basically kicked out of kindergarten after a serious phone call from the assistant principal.
New, virtual requirements caused these two grandmothers to step up and help their grandson so he wouldn't skip a year of pre-k.