Welcome to DeSoto Ready Start!
Desoto Ready Start is excited to help provide a quality education to Desoto Parish children from birth to 5 years. We believe that early childhood education is critical to a child’s development, especially the years before they reach kindergarten. Our goal at DeSoto Ready Start is to provide each child with the best education possible so they can enter kindergarten well-prepared and are #DesotoReady!
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The DeSoto Ready Start Community
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OUR BLUEPRINT
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- All DeSoto Parish children birth through age five are afforded opportunities to achieve maximum pre-kindergarten and kindergarten readiness skills.
- These children should also be provided equitable access to physical, emotional and high quality educational support they will need to enter school ready to succeed.
Goal 1
Equip and empower families to increase social, motor, brain and vocabulary development by providing educational materials, books, and hands-on activities.
Goal 2
By year 2025, increase the number of children, ages birth to four, in quality centers by 25%, using 2022 numbers as a guide.
Goal 3
By 2025, the quality of early care and education in the network will improve by increasing the number of “high proficient” or “excellent” centers.