A full-scale effort to improve the quality of pre-kindergarten education in Forsyth County, funded with millions in federal COVID relief dollars, is yielding impressive results, early childhood education advocates said recently.
Midway through the two-year initiative, 4-year-olds placed in model classrooms across the county in 2023-24 dramatically increased their literacy and math skills from the beginning to the end of the year and showed gains in their social and emotional development, according to a report from Pre-K Priority, a coalition of more than 80 pre-K leaders and advocates that formed in 2014 to eliminate educational disparities among children entering kindergarten.
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