Central right here on KCET and Floyd County.

Approximately 2000 children are preschool age.

However, the school system only has room for a maximum of 320 students to help fill the gap in available education.

The school district has come up with an alternative, a preschool on wheels.

The district says that parents will be able to watch, teach how it takes a village to raise a child and know that that's been said many times, that we can do that best if we fully engage with the family from the very beginning.

If you can engage those families and value them as their child's first teacher and bring them along with you all along the way, it is going to serve everyone well and certainly guarantee success for that child.

One, two, three year.

You may be an A head start student myself.

You know, back in the sixties, when Headstart first started the War on Poverty and I was eligible because of poverty, I've been able to see this happen for the children in this county.

Just brings me great pride.

Every child that wants to come to preschool or Headstart can't.

This is a way for us to go to them.

Unfortunately, we live in an area, especially eastern Kentucky, where we don't have very many child care centers.

We have so many kids that's not in any type of structured setting, whether it's child care or Headstart preschool.

So we're hoping this best we can reach that population is just going to be powerful for what we can do as far as having more kids walk through the kindergarten door ready.

And so I expect that our kindergarten readiness members, when we have our data, that it's going to be even better because of all the kids we're going to be able to serve that we currently don't get to serve.

Every family doesn't choose to enroll their child in preschool in Headstart, and that's perfectly fine.

But we still want to engage with those families, even if they choose not to enroll their child until kindergarten.

We want to enroll.

We want to engage with them and let them know that we are a resource.

And we have so many resources as a school district to help them bring their child along.

We want to be in that with them all along the way.

I've always said I hope before I expire some day that we would see in this state universal preschool that every little child who's three and four that dreams of going to school like I did when I was three and four, would get the opportunity to do that.

And we're not there yet.

This is certainly a step in the right direction.

And in the interim, until that does happen for Kentucky, that we can get more kids ready in every county.

The district says that parents will be able to watch teachers go through activities with their children.