Child Care Facility Expands to Close the School Readiness Gap in Baltimore

Baltimore has been ranked and is still ranked as one of the lowest cities in the nation with a median income. In areas with low socioeconomic status, statistics have shown that students have demonstrated significantly low reading, math, and vocabulary skills. This then creates a large school readiness gap which affects the academic performance and particular social skills among children entering kindergarten and first grade. 

Since 2012, Angela Johnston-Kidane had been dedicated to making sure children in her own community are well-prepared and ready for school. The Baltimore native facilitates her own child care center called KidzStuff Child Care. 

Over the past decade, KidzStuff Child Care has served more than 2,500 families and sent children to school with some of the highest school readiness rates in Baltimore City. Their main focus is to build generations of resilient young learners who are school-ready.  The childcare facility just opened a second location in the Baltimore Metropolitan Area to serve the community in a larger capacity.

“Expanding our childcare services within the city has always been our goal, we are passionate about providing quality child care to the residents of Baltimore City with the goal of closing the school readiness gap in the Baltimore Metropolitan area,” says CEO and Founder, Angela Johnston-Kidane. “Moving into a new community will provide much-needed care to its residents. We will add infant/toddler care to a city that is so desperately in need of it,” Angela adds.