What is Kern County School Readiness?
The goal of the Kern County School Readiness Initiative is to increase the number of children who enter school healthy and ready to learn. The initiative is designed to identify service gaps, to expand valuable existing programs, to promote practices that best prepare children for school, and to support those families and communities with the greatest need in preparing their children for school. Who participates in School Readiness? The Kern County School Readiness Initiative funds school readiness programs in communities served by high priority schools in the lowest three deciles of the 1999 Academic Performance Index. School Readiness programs must be school based or school linked. Currently, there are 13 school districts and 35 individual schools involved in both phase 1 and phase 2 of School Readiness.
