Washington lags the country in preschool, and child poverty is growing, new study says
“Less than half of Washington’s 3- and 4-year-olds attend preschool of any kind.Just 8% of them have access to publicly funded, high-quality prekindergarten.Those are some of the findings from the KIDS COUNT Data Book, published annually by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and released Monday. (The Annie E. Casey Foundation also funds Education Lab.) The report ranks Washington 16th overall among the 50 states for child well-being”