Harford County Public Library Contributes to Increase in School Readiness

(Belcamp, MD) According to the results of the Maryland Model for School Readiness assessment released earlier this year by the Maryland Department of Education, eighty-one percent of Maryland Kindergarteners are ready for school; up from 49 percent recorded when the test began ten years ago. Eighty-five percent of Harford County Kindergarteners are ready for school; up from sixty-nine percent recorded ten years ago.

Opening The Gift Librarian, Melinda Chase, reads to in-home daycare children. Read more...