A new report shows a decline in the percentage of Ohio kindergarteners demonstrating readiness for school in the 2023-2024 school year compared to 2020-2021. The report attributes this decline to factors such as pandemic-related closures of childcare and preschool programs and the ongoing issue of poverty among young children.
Students work on a number exercise in the classroom of Valeri White, a kindergarten teacher at Downey Elementary School in Harrisburg. January 29, 2025. Dan Gleiter | [email protected], Ohio - Fewer Ohio kindergarteners demonstrated readiness for school in the 2023-2024 school year compared 2020-2021, around the time the COVID-19 pandemic started, a new report showed.
Groundwork Ohio, a research and advocacy organization focused on early childhood development, on Tuesday releasedIncluded were scores from Nearly one in five Ohio children under age five live in poverty, which the federal government defined this year as $32,150 for a family of four, the report said. This is a small improvement from Groundwork’s last report reviewing the data in 2023, when it was 21%. The federal child tax credit is believed to have helped reduce poverty.per child in an executive budget he presented last week.
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