The city came up with $1.5 million for the Early Learning Coalition to work with 25 child-care centers — about 800 children — in a high-crime area of Northwest Jacksonville. The short-term goal was to help better prepare the children for school, as well as get them any necessary intervention resources they need.
Because that money didn’t come through until February, the centers haven’t had a full year yet of the services that include coaches, materials, curriculum and scholarships for training. But preliminary numbers show children have improved in such areas as understanding placement of items (such as under or behind), emotional concepts (such as angry, excited), quantity (such as full or a lot) and time/sequence (such as after or before).
And the percentage of children who were proficient in recognizing at least 40 of the 52 upper and lowercase letters increased from 44 to 74 percent.
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