early learning

The donated books will be distributed to youngsters in the Leon District's Title 1 schools.

While the kids collected free books to take home, the grownups were checking out several service organization information booths.

Leon County drivers can help local kids just by filling their tanks at designated gas pumps. Whole Child Leon is partnering with the Shell USA Giving Pump initiative now through September.

Governor Ron DeSantis has announced a batch of new funding to address student learning loss. The money comes from federal COVID-19 relief funds. It will be used for after-school programs, reading intervention, and the creation of regional mental health teams.

The organization's affiliated agencies will target human needs in the areas of housing, early learning, safety net services, health and mental health, and skills development.

The Classroom Connection initiative seeks to involve businesses and non-profit organizations in helping the district's kindergarten students achieve reading mastery.

Nearly a third of Florida’s more than 6,000 Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten providers are on probation and only about 53% of kids who attended kindergarten in 2019 were deemed ready for it. Rep. Erin Grall, R-Vero Beach, believes that has to change and her proposal on early learning and VPK is now on its way to the governor's desk.

The Coalition's 250 early learning providers in the seven-county area now have sufficient supplies to get the new classroom term underway, even if many other uncertainties remain.

It’s goodbye to Tallahassee’s “Dick Howser Center” and hello to the “Bruce Harter Learning Pavilion.” But Tallahassee’s venerable pre-school for children…

Millions of Americans grew up watching Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood on the local Public Television station. But a new generation of kids is now growing up…