Evaluating the Effectiveness of One City Schools: Preparing Children for School Success and Healthy Lives

At a Glance

Education is a building block of healthy communities. When people have access to quality educational opportunities, families and communities thrive.

A grant to One City Schools supports the school’s work to advance health equity through an innovative model of early child education. One City will use the funding to develop a rigorous longitudinal evaluation of the school’s novel approach—which includes how it trains staff, engages parents and the larger community, and prepares its young children—to better illustrate how its model of early childhood education and family involvement can close educational and health gaps. Findings will be used to inform expansion of the preschool, inform the fields of early childhood education, and help support public policy and system changes around early childhood education.