Article content Saskatchewan’s provincial auditor has found room for improvement in supports for early learners. In her 2021 report, released Tuesday, Auditor Judy Ferguson looked at two areas of early childhood education. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or More thorough evaluation needed for Sask. early learning supports: provincial auditor Back to video “Initiatives to help early learners are critical given the percentage of kindergarten students in Saskatchewan’s publicly funded schools assessed as ‘ready for learning’ is well below the provincial goal of 90 per cent,” Ferguson said. The provincial average is 79 per cent, even lower for self-declared First Nations, Metis and Inuit kindergarten students, which were at 56 per cent in 2019-20.