BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – For the final time in its current location for the next four years, Governor Andy Beshear held a Team Kentucky update on Wednesday.
In this update, he filled the Commonwealth in on the progress his Pre-K for All initiative is making.
“Pre-K for All would boost take home pay for families $9,000 a year for six straight years, meaning $54,000 more for the average Kentucky family. It saves $7,000 per year in costs, and it could grow Kentucky’s workforce by 70,000 people… and of course, it could increase kindergarten readiness in a state where over half of our kids show up not ready for kindergarten,” Beshear says.
You may remember a town hall being held on Western Kentucky University’s campus in Bowling Green recently. That was just one of many ways for residents to hel