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Is Oregon Ready to Learn?
Improving Oregon's Kindergarten Readiness Survey
Now is the time to re-engineer Oregon's kindergarten readiness survey to provide Oregonians a useful tool for measuring progress toward our goal of ensuring all children enter kindergarten healthy and ready for success. The Children's Institute is partnering with the Oregon Department of Education and others to ensure Oregon has a strong and effective accountability tool in place as we expand investments in comprehensive early education programs.
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"Is Oregon Ready to Learn?" featured in The Oregonian
The Children's Institute in Portland released a report today urging the state to improve the way it measures whether children are ready for kindergarten.
The state assessment, started in 1997 and conducted every two years since 2000, is a voluntary survey of kindergarten teachers... The Oregonian article
State Funding for Early Head Start Makes Headway
At the top of the session, the Children's Institute and Ready for School proposed state funding for additional Early Head Start spaces in the same way the state funds Head Start. Governor Kulongoski and key legislators embraced the idea, but the revenue was not available. When the Legislature convenes in February, the Children's Institute and Ready for School will be there. Learn more.
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