New at Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
| Pre-K Now, a national public education and advocacy organization, highlights the passage of the Pre-Kindergarten Education Act in RI. View the brief in "Today in Pre-K". The Act calls for the creation and implementation of a state-funded Pre-K program serving 3 and 4 year olds in communities with high concentrations of low-performing schools.
| - View the newly released America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008. The annual report profiles the status of the nation's children and youth, presenting up-to-date federal statistics on a variety of issues in one convenient reference. According to the report, math and reading scores of fourth and eighth graders have increased, but the teen birth rate and the proportion of infants born at low birthweight have also risen.
| View the ABC 6 news story about a rally in of support of the state’s health insurance program for vulnerable children and families, RIte Care. The story includes interviews with RIte Care members and advocates, including Elizabeth Burke Bryant, Executive Director of Rhode Island KIDS COUNT.
| - RI has a 70% high school graduation rate and a 19% dropout rate based on new methodology for calculating RI graduation rates. Compare the new rates across RI with the old rates and view detailed information about the new methodology in this supplement prepared by Rhode Island Kids Count.
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