Grants for preschool programs

All parents hope their child will start school ready for success. Unfortunately, not every parent can find the high-quality early learning opportunity that sets their child up for success. Earlier today the U. Department of Education released a new report outlining the unmet need for high-quality early learning programs in America. Roughly 6 in 10 four-year-olds are not enrolled in publicly funded preschool programs, and even fewer are enrolled in the highest quality programs.

While both states and the federal government invest in early learning, these efforts have fallen short of what is needed to ensure that all children can access a high-quality early education that will prepare them for success. Significant new investments in high-quality early education are necessary to help states, local communities, and parents close the readiness gap that exists between disadvantaged children and their more advantaged peers.

For Latino children, the unmet need is especially great. While Latinos are the fastest growing and largest minority group in the United States, making up a quarter of 3- and 4-year-olds, Latinos demonstrate the lowest preschool participation rates of any major ethnicity or race.

Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships. Early Childhood Data. Examining and Supporting Credentialing. High-Quality Workforce. Services for Homeless Children. Supporting Children and Families Experiencing Homelessness. Technology with Young Children. Tribal Early Childhood. Early Childhood Technical Assistance. Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five PDG B-5 The Preschool Development Birth through Five PDG B-5 grants, which differ significantly from the previous Preschool Development Grants, are designed to fund states to conduct a comprehensive statewide birth through five needs assessment followed by in-depth strategic planning, while enhancing parent choice and expanding the current mixed delivery system consisting of a wide range of provider types and settings, including child care centers and home-based child care providers, Head Start and Early Head Start, state pre-kindergarten, and home visiting service providers across the public, private and faith-based sectors.

The grants will help: Develop or enhance state preschool program infrastructure; and Reach and serve additional eligible children in one or more high-need communities. These grants will help: Enhance state preschool program infrastructure and quality; and Reach and serve additional eligible children in two or more high-need communities.

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