Governor Andy Beshear continues his push for pre-K education for all Kentucky children.

Yesterday, he launched his pre-K for all initiative with stops in Louisville, Lexington and Florence, Kentucky.

At his news conference today, he talked about why Kentucky needs to do more.

Every child deserves a good start.

And as excited as I am about our red hot economy in Kentucky, we've got to recognize that there are some ratings and some rankings where we are not living up to the promise of our families and here of our kids right now.

More than half of Kentucky's children show up for kindergarten, not kindergarten ready.

And sometimes they never catch up to that achievement gap before they ever even step foot through the door of a public school.

They're behind.

And when it comes to parents and caregivers, they need more opportunity and more options.

Yesterday, the governor announced the creation of a team, Kentucky pre-K for all Advisory Committee with 28 leaders from across the state.