Last month, DCYF Secretary Ross Hunter sat down with the Association of Washington School Principals (AWSP) to talk about the agency, his journey from Microsoft to DCYF and how principals can support early learning.
“So we've been trying to implement and build a system that really thinks about outcomes for children. That is a counterpart to the work that we do in the K-12 system. A lot of the work pretty much all of our work in the birth to five spaces and our responsibility plus worrying about at-risk kids, kids in the foster care system, kids in the juvenile justice system, sort of more broadly defined, is how do we ensure that these kids have a path to success so that we're not creating this sort of prison to Pre-K back to prison pipeline again,” said Hunter. “I'd like to get out of that loop. I think we have an opportunity to do that, and so that's what I'm doing now.”
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