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All children should enter school ready to learn. In order for children to be ready for school at Kindergarten, the critical building blocks of Healthy Development, Strong Families, and Early Learning need be put in place during early childhood.
The following maps and fact sheets are a snapshot of level of risk in Kansas and research on risk and protective factors for school readiness.
A number of risk factors can delay school readiness, while protective factors help support children to be ready for school.

MAPS
The following maps depict the level of risk for each county based on census data for these risk factors: percent of families with children under 18 living in poverty (Poverty) percent of adults with less than a high school …show more content…

(Linver, Brookes-Gunn, & Kohen, 2002)

Children from typical middle-class homes entered elementary school with between 1,000 and 1,700 hours of parental reading, compared to the average of only 25 hours for children from a typical low-income home.

Blue Sheet
Kindergarten teachers rank social-emotional skills and executive functions as the qualities most important for school readiness.
Executive functions and behavioral regulation have been found to remain important in predicting of academic outcomes even when intelligence is included.
No differences were found in school readiness between economically disadvantaged and affluent children if their mothers were college-educated.
Income has been found to be the single highest correlate of academic achievement.

ECBG At-Risk Factors
Currently, the goal of the Early Childhood Block Grant is to serve children and families who are "at-risk" with services that fall under the three areas identified by the Kansas Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund of Healthy Development, Strong Families and Early Learning. In the last request for grant proposals at-risk was defined by the following

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