The following applicants have been preliminarily selected to receive a grant for the Prekindergarten Early Start Grant, Tier 1, Cycle 1, Year 1.
Contacts:	Sarah Averill (Funding) Discretionary Grants (512) 463-9269 sarah.averill@tea.state.tx.us	Lilie Elizondo-Limas State Initiatives (512) 936-6060 lilie.elizondo@tea.state.tx.us
The purpose of the Prekindergarten Early Start Tier 1, Cycle 1, Year 1 grant is for grantees to: 1) Implement proven school readiness components -- high quality, developmentally appropriate, and rigorous curriculum; continuous monitoring of student progress in the classroom; and professional development, including mentoring, to promote student achievement; 2) Participate in the School Readiness Certification System -- a valid, research-based automated system provided by the State Center for Early Childhood Development through which an early childhood education program submits an application demonstrating the program's record of cognitive, social, and emotional development of young children to be certified as a school ready program; 3) Develop and implement a School Readiness Integration Plan -- a collaboration among public prekindergarten programs and local workforce development boards, Head Start providers, college or university early childhood programs, and/or providers of private for-profit or nonprofit licensed child care services that provides a school readiness component to eligible prekindergarten students and integrates cooperative strategies to share resources across public and non-public program delivery organizations in a community or communities; and 4) Develop strategies to sustain an effective and integrated prekindergarten program after grant funds cease.
Grant Period:	September 1, 2009 – August 31, 2010

List of Awardees:

Alpine ISD Anthony ISD Arlington ISD Avalon ISD Beaumont ISD Birdville ISD Brookeland ISD Bryan ISD Buffalo ISD Burnet CISD Cameron ISD Castleberry ISD Cedar Hill ISD Clarksville ISD Clyde CISD Coldspring-Oakhurst CISD Corrigan-Camden ISD Cotulla ISD Devine ISD Dilley ISD Dimmitt ISD Eagle Pass ISD Edcouch-Elsa ISD El Paso ISD Elgin ISD ESC Region 02 ESC Region 07 ESC Region 08 ESC Region 12 ESC Region 13 ESC Region 14 Everman ISD Faith Family Kids (Faith Family Academy Of Oak Cliff) Faith Family Kids (Waxahachie Faith Family Academy) Floydada ISD Forestburg ISD Galveston ISD Giddings ISD Golden Rule School, Inc. Hale Center ISD Hamlin ISD Hart ISD Hempstead ISD Houston Gateway Academy Inc. IDEA Academy, Inc. Jasper ISD Judson ISD Kendleton ISD Kennard ISD Kirbyville CISD Knox City-O'Brien CISD La Marque ISD La Vernia ISD Longview ISD Los Fresnos CISD Memphis ISD Muleshoe ISD Nacogdoches ISD Navasota ISD Newcastle ISD North Forest ISD Palestine ISD Pampa ISD Perryton ISD Pilot Point ISD Pleasanton ISD Premont ISD Royal ISD San Benito CISD Shallowater ISD Shepherd ISD Sinton ISD Skidmore-Tynan ISD Socorro ISD Somerville ISD South Texas Educational Technologies, Inc. (Technology Education Charter High School) Splendora ISD Spring ISD Stafford MSD Tenaha ISD Terrell ISD The Rhodes School Venus ISD West Orange-Cove CISD Woodsboro ISD

Last Updated May 21 , 2009