Preschool for All is reaching its equity objectives but could do more to support preschools and serve diverse children, especially those with disabilities. The program also risks losing credibility if ...

Multnomah County’s Preschool for All, which seeks to guarantee tuition-free child care to every preschooler in the county by 2030, reported another year of dramatically underspending its budget. The ...

Toys in the backyard of Melody's Munchkins, a Preschool for All provider. (Brian Brose) Leaders of Multnomah County’s Preschool for All announced Monday that the program would increase capacity to ...

Williams is executive director of Family Forward Oregon. She lives in Portland. We know what happens when child care collapses – because we’ve lived it. In 2020, businesses across Portland were ...

Multnomah County’s heavily scrutinized effort to provide free preschool to all its 3- and 4-year-olds, starting with those at highest need, has met the mark in terms of who’s filled seats, but the ...

Oregon Senate Bill 106 saw a flurry of activity earlier this week, including a last-minute amendment that sought to sunset the universal preschool program and a hastily called legislative meeting ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County is expanding its Preschool for All program again, adding hundreds of new, tuition-free ...

Multnomah County officials knew that former Preschool for All Director Leslee Barnes owned a Portland preschool when they hired her in 2021, but Barnes did not list her ownership of Village Childcare ...

The popularity of my recent Psychology Today blog post (Preschool Isn't Prep—It's Prime Time for Brain Growth) underscored something powerful: a growing wave of parents and educators are rethinking ...