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The goal of Strong Start Kentucky: Quality Pre-K for Every Child is making high-quality preschool available to every Kentucky child.
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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.
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...
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.
Early Ed Watch explains "PreK-3rd 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.
Pre-K Message From The Experts
"Strong Start Kentucky: Investing in Quality Early Care and Education to Ensure Furture Success". This report authored by a coalition of early care and education leaders organized by the Prichard Committee, was published in October 2007. Read the report and recommendations to learn more.
Download our sign-up sheet for Pre-K updates. Once names are on the sign-up sheet, simply mail back to our offices so we can add them to our database.
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