Vision
All of Florida’s children are eager to learn and ready to succeed when they enter kindergarten.

Mission
To ensure that all children are intellectually, emotionally, physically and socially ready to enter school and ready to learn, fully recognizing the crucial role of parents as their child’s first teacher.

VPK History
In 2002, Florida Voters approved The Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten Education (VPK) Program through constitutional amendment. The goal of the program, signed into law in 2004, is to prepare 4-year olds for kindergarten and lay the foundation for their educational success. The program allows a parent to enroll his or her eligible child in a free pre-Kindergarten (Pre-K) program.

VPK Today
Each child residing in Florida who will be four years of age on or before September 1 of the school year is eligible for the pre-K program during that school year. A child remains eligible until the beginning of the school year for which the child is eligible for admission to Kindergarten in a public school (i.e. the child reaches age five years on or before September 1 of the school year) or is admitted to Kindergarten, whichever occurs first.

http://www.elcpalmbeach.org/vpk.htm
http://www.familycentral.org/pb_vpk.asp
http://www.floridajobs.org/VPK/index.html
http://www.palmbeachschools.org/Prek.htm