Poverty sets kids behind, before they even enter kindergarten. Here’s how we stop it
““No child’s future should be determined before they are 6 years old,” Liz Barker Alvarez, chief policy adviser for First Things First, passionately tells me. “After the first week of school, ask kindergarten teachers which students are struggling – and might continue struggling throughout school – and the majority of the kids they point to likely will be kids living in poverty.””