Review and Revision of the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Program Standards (2005) The Florida Department of Education, Office of Early Learning, is pleased to announce the first of two Panel of Experts' Meetings to review the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Education Performance Standards (2005). The focus of this meeting will be: emergent literacy, language and communication, physical health, approaches to learning, social and emotional development, and motor development. The area of Cognitive Development and General Knowledge (mathematics, science, social studies, the arts) will be discussed at a second meeting on December 17 and 18.