Guilford Education Alliance releases school readiness report card
Update: Here is the school readiness report.
The rundown: Guilford Education Alliance is working with several state and local agencies to help more children become ready for school and track the county's progress at accomplishing this over time. You can read about this report in stories here and here, which touch on different angles.
I was able to flesh out by deadline the desire of the alliance to increase the percentage of families accessing high-quality child care. Another focus of the organization was the physicals that students entering kindergarten are required to complete. Guilford County Schools gave the alliance access to thousands of these health assessment forms, but it turned out only half were usable. This limited the alliance's efforts to determine school readiness county-wide.
The alliance has recommended the automation of these forms for data crunching in the future. It also recommends that school nurses and school leadership teams use the data to address children's health needs, which is already done to some extent now.