The following applicants have been preliminarily selected to receive a grant for the Prekindergarten Early Start Grant, Tier 3.
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 3 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:

Academy of America, Inc. (Academy of Dallas) Academy of America, Inc. (Bexar County Academy) Austin ISD Brownfield ISD Channelview ISD Chapel Hill ISD Connally ISD Corsicana ISD Crosbyton CISD Crystal City ISD Dallas ISD Democratic School Research, Inc. (Brazos School for Inquiry & Creativity) Donna ISD Driscoll ISD ESC Region 02 ESC Region 07 ESC Region 12 Fort Worth ISD Gilmer ISD Girl's Haven (Ehrhart School) Gonzales ISD Harlandale ISD Hearne ISD Hereford ISD Hitchcock ISD Houston ISD Jarrell ISD Jefferson ISD Kilgore ISD KIPP Inc. Charter La Escuela De Las Americas Public Charter School, Inc. La Feria ISD La Joya ISD Lamesa ISD Lancaster ISD Laredo ISD Lasara ISD Levelland ISD Loraine ISD Lubbock ISD Lufkin ISD Lyford CISD Madisonville CISD McAllen ISD Miracle Educational Systems, Inc. (Northwest Preparatory) Monte Alto ISD North Zulch ISD Odyssey 2020 Academy, Inc. Paris ISD Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD Presidio ISD Quinlan ISD Rio Hondo ISD Roosevelt ISD School of Excellence in Education Shekinah Learning Institute (Radiance Academy of Learning) Shekinah Learning Institute (Shekinah Radiance Academy) Snook ISD Somerset ISD South San Antonio ISD Tekoa Academy of Accelerated Studies Temple ISD United ISD Uvalde CISD Waco ISD West Oso ISD Wharton ISD Wheeler ISD Youth Empowerment Services, Inc. (Higgs Carter King Gifted & Talented Charter Academy) Zapata County ISD

Last Updated June 30, 2009