New emphasis, new role for preschools

Slightly more than half of Calaveras County’s children ages 4 and 5 attend preschool, slightly higher than the statewide average, according to Children Now, a child advocacy group. Calaveras has a higher number than California’s overall statistics, but is 57 percent, the number of Calaveras children attending preschool, enough? According to Karen Pekarcik, executive director of First 5 Calaveras in […]