The Building Foundations Network seeks to strengthen educational outcomes for children from birth to grade 5.
Being kindergarten ready allows a child to take full advantage of all available educational opportunities. This decade, greater than half of incoming kindergarteners in the Shreveport-Bossier City-Minden area lacked the letter and number awareness, understanding, and fluency expected of students upon school entry. This means that about 3,150 5-year-olds in the area, on average each year this decade, were not prepared when they began school in the fall.