Six states awarded Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grants
Six additional states—Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont—will receive a total of 80 million in grant awards from the 2013 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge fund.
- Establishing culturally, linguistically, and developmentally appropriate early learning and development standards across all the essential domains of school readiness for children from birth to kindergarten entry.
- Ensuring that quality program standards are applied to all early learning programs in the state.
- Building and improving state Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems designed to inform parents about the quality of early learning programs and drive improvements to the quality of those programs.
- Promoting health and family engagement strategies.
