An early education program undertaken by Williamsburg County Schools for children from kindergarten through grade 3 to counteract continuing problems of failure and low achievement throughout the school system is described. The plan calls for establishing a sound county-wide kindergarten program for five year olds; providing individualized instruction; maintaining at least 90% attendance for every child; developing 90% mastery of fundamental language skills by 90% of all children entering fourth grade; eliminating extreme deficit areas in psycholinguistic abilities; and providing an environment that will enable every child to become an independent learner. To accomplish these objectives, team teachers will use sequential skills development in open classrooms containing skills centers. Record sheets for evaluation include specific check lists for development of the following skills: gross motor, fine motor, personal-social; language, auditory perception, auditory memory, visual perception, visual memory; verbal and manual expression, phonetic analysis, picture, configuration and context clues, structural analysis, critical reading comprehension, reference skills, independent reading, functional reading, handwriting and 5 math sequences. (DJ)