PBS KIDS Utah’s education initiative is in its 26th year, and the PBS Ready To Learn content has been implemented by PBS KIDS Utah since its inception in 2005. 

Ready To Learn uses award-winning, evidence-based PBS Kids programs as a springboard to strengthen families, increase parental involvement, and encourage early literacy through educational programs and community activities.

PBS KIDS Utah has long played a critical role in educating Utah’s children, particularly Utah’s low-income and underserved children, helping them start school ready to learn and more likely to experience academic success. For more than two decades tens of thousands of Utah children and families have benefited from PBS KIDS Utah's early childhood educational television programs, educational resources, and community engagement activities.

Ready To Learn History/Background

Ready To Learn began in 2005 as a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Department of Education, CPB, PBS, Ready To Learn Partnership, and PBS member public television stations nationwide, such as PBS KIDS Utah. The initiation of Ready To Learn was supported by scientifically-based research regarding the most effective ways for kids to build reading skills, with a special emphasis on the needs of children from low-income families. PBS KIDS Utah, as a PBS member public television station, developed its own community-focused curriculum and content utilizing PBS’s traditional television, online resources, and emerging interactive media as an entry point of engagement for the community. PBS KIDS Utah’s Ready To Learn hands on activities and learning curriculum is unique to the station and supported entirely by a broad base of community minded individuals, foundations, and corporation.

Beesley Family Foundation

Castle Foundation

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Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐day Saints Foundation

Emma Eccles Jones Foundation

George Q. Morris Foundation

Henry W. and Leslie M. Eskuche Foundation

Herbert L. and Elsa B. Michael Foundation

Lawrence T. & Janet T. Dee Foundation

Molina Healthcare

Nancy Eccles & Homer M. Hayward Family Foundation in Honor of Cleone Peterson Eccles

R. Harold Burton Foundation

Ruth Eleanor Bamberger and John Ernest Bamberger
 Memorial Foundation

Utah Medical Association Foundation

Western Digital Corporation Fund