6/7/2010 2:13:05 PM

8/2/2010 12:22:07 PM

Check out this new video from Strong Start and the Prichard Committee, which asks kids what they want to be when they grow up and explains why early childhood education is crucial for Kentucky's children.

7/6/2010 2:43:16 PM

WILLIAMSBURG — When 299 graduates earned diplomas from Whitley County High
School this June, it would have been hard to know which students might not have been there
without the district’s 20-year investment in pre-k.

Statistics, however, make it clear that the graduating class would likely have been much
smaller....

Find out more by downloading the full report here.

6/7/2010 2:12:27 PM

2/1/2010 12:32:22 PM

Kentucky continues to rank in the bottom ten among states for child well-being. Children’s Advocacy Day at the Capitol began in 2004 as an effort to unite advocates from across the state to raise their voices on behalf of children’s safety, health, education and economic well-being...

12/4/2009 1:24:39 AM

Investing $1 to make quality preschool available to more Kentucky children would result in benefits of more than $5 for the state, according to a new report by the University of Kentucky Center for Business and Economic Research. Read the full report and press release. See also this article from Friday's Lexington Herald-Leader.

10/19/2009 8:28:05 PM

Early Ed Watch explains "PreK-3^rd alignment" in this short video (7 mins) with help from Dr. Jerry Weast, Superintendent of Montgomery County Schools in Maryland, which is home to one of the country's most successful PreK-3rd reform efforts.

9/21/2009 11:38:55 AM

"For the past two years, the veteran early childhood educator has hit the road, delivering public school pre-k lessons at a pair of day care centers here. In innovative partnerships, the Christian County school system is placing pre-k teachers in a handful of child care centers to reach more three- and four-year-olds eligible for state-funded pre-k programs and, at the same time, build quality and rapport with private child care providers..."

Read the full report here.

8/28/2009 12:53:01 PM

Helen Mountjoy, cabinet secretary and co-chair of the early childhood task force has lunch with the Courier-Journal and describes her work.  Read the interview.

6/5/2009 2:09:40 PM

Former Kentucky first ladies voice their support for early childhood education.  Read more in the Louisville Courier-Journal.