{"id":2904,"date":"2024-08-15T16:15:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T16:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2024-09-25T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T20:18:40","slug":"state-board-awards-five-school-districts-4-7m-in-grants-to-implement-state-invested-pre-k-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2024\/08\/15\/state-board-awards-five-school-districts-4-7m-in-grants-to-implement-state-invested-pre-k-programs\/","title":{"rendered":"State Board awards five school districts $4.7M in grants to implement State Invested Pre-K programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: August 15, 2024<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px;\"><strong>State Board awards five school districts $4.7M in grants to implement State Invested Pre-K programs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 Today, the Mississippi State Board of Education awarded $4,725,000 in grants to five school districts to implement new State Invested Pre-K (SIP) programs.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of these grants is to provide funding to support high-quality pre-K programs for 4-year-old children in districts that are not part of the Mississippi Department of Education\u2019s (MDE) Early Learning Collaborative program. SIP programs expand MDE\u2019s offering of high-quality pre-K programs.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen SIP programs have been implemented since August 2023 serving 1,820 students in 91 classrooms. The new SIPs will serve up to 300 students in 15 classrooms.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mdek12.org\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/news20240815-4.png\" alt=\"grants to implement State Invested Pre-K programs\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"e5056c2d-18bb-4761-8b7e-22cce1479295\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13px;\">Like ELCs, the SIP programs will meet all 10 benchmarks established by the National Institute of Early Education Research (NIEER): use of early learning standards, curriculum support, teacher degree, teacher specialized training, assistant teacher degree, staff professional development, maximum class size, staff-child ratio, screenings and referrals, and a continuous quality improvement system. Partnerships with local childcare centers or Head Start grantees are not a condition for receiving these grants; however, applicants with such partnerships earn extra points in the evaluation process.<\/p>\n<p>The grant period is Aug. 16, 2024 \u2013 June 30, 2027. Awarding of the grant each year shall be contingent upon the successful completion of services, a performance evaluation and the availability of funds. Additional SIP funding opportunities will be available in spring 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Find all MDE news releases at <a href=\"\/communications\/2024\/\"><u>mdek12.org\/news<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">###<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jean Cook, APR<br \/>\nChief of Communication<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:jcook@mdek12.org\">jcook@mdek12.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shanderia Minor<br \/>\nPublic Information Officer<br \/>\n601-359-3515<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:sminor@mdek12.org\">sminor@mdek12.org<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 Today, the Mississippi State Board of Education awarded $4,725,000 in grants to five school districts to implement new State Invested Pre-K (SIP) programs.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of these grants is to provide funding to support high-quality pre-K programs for 4-year-old children in districts that are not part of the Mississippi Department of Education\u2019s (MDE) Early Learning Collaborative program. SIP programs expand MDE\u2019s offering of high-quality pre-K programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}