Children are Ready to Succeed in School – Children's Services Council of Broward County

As the community works toward making sure all children in Broward are ready to succeed in school, committees have been working hard on ways to:

Improve children's educational success by making sure all of Broward children are ready to succeed in Kindergarten.
Improve the availability and quality of inclusive out-of-school time programs for economically disadvantaged children and for children with special needs (inclusion).
Improve the availability and quality of out-of-school care for children with special physical, developmental, and behavioral needs who require intensive services.
Enhance academic achievement,
Support social-emotional learning, developmental and physical activities.
And encourage providers in the community to provide educational field trips and cultural arts opportunities.

Subsidized Child Care, Vulnerable Population Child Care, & PBIS Indicators of Community Need:

13,633 unduplicated children (included 2,173 CSC children & 466 vulnerable pop) received financially-assisted school-readiness care (ECE). Of these, 7,944 were less than Kindergarten (K), 5,689 were school age.
4,521 children birth-12 on the wait list for financially assisted ECE. Over 50% of these are age 1 through 3 (as of 3/15/18 pt in time, ELC).
16,362 VPK children served in 17/18 YTD (ELC).
70.3% of PreK & over 68% of BCPS students in the K-3rd grade are Free Lunch (130% of FPL) (Broward Food & Nut. Svs.).
In 2017, 80% of students in K-1 showed satisfactory attendance. This was an improvement from the previous two years (BCPS).
95% of K-3 students (over 80,000 children) showed significant gains & growth levels through the year. Also, 70% of students K-3 maintained or increased reading levels over the summer.