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Transitional kindergarten in California is a mandated expansion that began in the early years of the pandemic and disrupted the early childhood education system in California. This paper is structured as three separate policy analyses to explore the impact on the quality of the transitional kindergarten classroom, on the current early childhood education workforce, and on family access and needs. Each policy analysis was conducted in a different style and contained recommendations for better supporting early childhood education across all programs. The mandated expansion of transitional kindergarten is still in its early years of implementation and so the true effects on the community-based centers and family child care programs is yet to be fully understood. In the quick expansion of transitional kindergarten, the voices of those most impacted by the rapid rollout were not included, and so this dissertation includes their voices where possible. At the end of the three different policy analyses is a table in which all the policy recommendations made throughout are listed in order from most to least likely to implement.