Our ability to progress as a state depends on the degree to which we can create opportunities for all children to succeed.
RESULTS MATTER. Achieving positive results requires us to keep our eyes on the prize: carefully measuring the well-being of children; setting meaningful goals for their care and development; identifying those who are suffering or being left behind; strategically publicizing the performance of public programs; and maintaining society’s focus on the evolving, objectively measured needs of the next generation.
ACCOUNTABILITY MATTERS. These challenging circumstances demand that we do more with less. They demand accountability. And at the heart of accountability, both literally and figuratively, is the word “count.” Accountability requires counting.
“WHAT GETS MEASURED GETS DONE,” says the old truism, and with millions of children’s well-being on the line, we simply must do a better job of counting what counts.
Alabama’s Kids Do Count. Find out more in the 2011 Alabama Kids Count Data Book.
Create targeted maps and graphs using the latest Alabama data by visiting the Annie E. Casey KIDS COUNT Data Center.
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