Multnomah County’s Preschool for All, which seeks to guarantee tuition-free child care to every preschooler in the county by 2030, reported another year of dramatically underspending its budget. The ...

Preschool for All is reaching its equity objectives but could do more to support preschools and serve diverse children, especially those with disabilities. The program also risks losing credibility if ...

Williams is executive director of Family Forward Oregon. She lives in Portland. We know what happens when child care collapses – because we’ve lived it. In 2020, businesses across Portland were ...

Toys in the backyard of Melody's Munchkins, a Preschool for All provider. (Brian Brose) Leaders of Multnomah County’s Preschool for All announced Monday that the program would increase capacity to ...

Oregon Senate Bill 106 saw a flurry of activity earlier this week, including a last-minute amendment that sought to sunset the universal preschool program and a hastily called legislative meeting ...

SALEM Ore. (KPTV) - Governor Tina Kotek is calling for major changes to Multnomah County’s Preschool for All program, citing concerns over ineffective implementation, unspent funds, and unmet promises ...

Multnomah County’s Preschool for All director has resigned after her ties to a preschool provider accused of “wasteful” spending of state dollars called her credibility into question with her ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The director of Multnomah County's Preschool for All program has resigned, effective immediately. Leslee Barnes submitted her resignation on Wednesday after serving in the role since ...

Multnomah County officials knew that former Preschool for All Director Leslee Barnes owned a Portland preschool when they hired her in 2021, but Barnes did not list her ownership of Village Childcare ...

The popularity of my recent Psychology Today blog post (Preschool Isn't Prep—It's Prime Time for Brain Growth) underscored something powerful: a growing wave of parents and educators are rethinking ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County is expanding its Preschool for All program again, adding hundreds of new, tuition-free preschool seats for the 2025-26 school year.