StanReady
StanREADY as an outcome is focused on ensuring that all Stanislaus County children enter kindergarten ready to succeed.
Priority Focus
Initiatives supporting the StanREADY outcome are focused on aligning early childhood education from in home childcare through transitional kindergarten. Efforts focus on ensuring there is an adequate supply of high quality early learning opportunities and that there is enough qualified workforce to support those opportunities. Additionally, in partnership with the Stanislaus Parent Network and Imagination Library, the partnership is focused on ensuring children not only have access to books in the home, that families are skilled in supporting early literacy skill building.
Why this Matters
Children need to have certain prerequisite skills to do well in kindergarten. Kindergarten readiness affects future academic achievement and life success. Children develop fundamental skills in early childhood that build strong foundations for reading, math, and social interactions. Studies show that as a child’s kindergarten readiness scores improve, third-grade reading and math scores rise accordingly.
Percent of Children Ready for Kindergarten
UNIVERSE: Kindergartners who took the KSEP in the fall who scored “Ready-to-Go”.
SOURCE: Stanislaus READS Data Portal as of 09/22/2022.
Key Insights
We need to align healthcare and early education outcomes with a focus on the child and the whole family.
Available shared data in the 0-5 space is a challenge StanREADY is working to solve. We seek to align data systems across sectors so we have a better understanding of the whole child experience.
With the limited data that we have, we see disparities in access to formal early childhood education programs. Closing these gaps is central to our collective action.
UNIVERSE: Kindergartners who took the KSEP in the fall who scored “Ready-to-Go”.
SOURCE: Stanislaus READS Data Portal as of 01/08/2020.