Vanguard Official To Speak In Pottstown

John J. Brennan will be the featured speaker at the Pottstown Early Action for Kindergarten Readiness annual meeting on from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 6 at  in Pottstown.

Mr. Brennan is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard Group, Inc. 

Vanguard is one of the world’s largest investment companies. Headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, Vanguard comprises more than 170 separate domestic investment portfolios, with current U.S. fund assets of more than $1.5 trillion. 

Mr. Brennan is a strong advocate of the importance of quality early education opportunities and serves on the Pennsylvania Early Learning Investment Commission. He speaks nationally on the connection between quality early education experiences and student achievement.  His remarks at the Annual Meeting will focus on Building the Connection between Businesses and Early Education.

PEAK is a collaboration of Pottstown School District and community organizations that are working together to design and implement strategies that enable children to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

PEAK focuses its work in five inter-related areas: community outreach, family engagement, quality improvement, kindergarten transition and health/wellness.

PEAK’s overarching goal is to build an infrastructure that ensures all children in Pottstown enter kindergarten ready to learn.