Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program will open about 240 new midyear seats for the 2025–26 school year, it announced on Friday.

The seats, which families can apply for starting on Monday, will become available starting January 2026. The additional seats were awarded to both new and existing providers, according to a county release.

Preschool for All, the county program trying to provide universal access to the county’s children by 2030, has in its early years struggled to ramp up capacity as quickly as initially hoped. It still faces a long waitlist and more demand than it has room to accommodate.

“This mid-year expansion is an important part of making high-quality preschool accessible for every family in Multnomah County,” Rachel Pearl, the interim director of the county’s Pres

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