MORE THAN $108.8 MILLION IN EARLY READING FIRST GRANTS AWARDED TO 28 RECIPIENTS TO PREPARE YOUNG CHILDREN TO READ
Applicant Name | Applicant State |
Federal Funding
Three Year Amount
|
Fontana Unified School District--Early Education, Instructional Services
Project Name: Unified School District – Ready to Read
Project Director: Laurie D. Finucane
|
CA | $2,887,050.00 |
Long Beach Unified School District
Project Name: Long Beach Unified School District’s SPARK Program – Students in Preschool Acquiring Reading Knowledge
Project Director: Lauren Shaw
|
CA | $3,516,055.00 |
School District 1, City and County of Denver
Project Name: Lab Enhanced Approach to ReadiNess (LEARN) in Denver Public Schools
Project Director: Jane Walsh
|
CO | $2,926,398.00 |
Weld County School District 6
Project Name: Greeley Early Reading First Project: Early Excellence
Project Director: Nancy Divine
|
CO | $3,282,004.00 |
Septima Clark Public Charter School
Project Name: Helping Emergent Literacy Progress (HELP)
Project Director: Nancy Mahon
|
DC | $2,651,715.00 |
University of Delaware--Delaware Center for Teacher Education, Human Services Education and Public Policy
Project Name: Unlocking Doors to Language and Literacy Project Director: Carol Vukelich
|
DE | $3,674,921.00 |
United Way Center for Excellence in Early Education
Project Name: Literacy Enhancement for Early Readers (LEER)
Project Director: Gladys R. Montes
|
FL | $3,570,226.00 |
Clarke County School District---Office of Early Learning, Instructional Services
Project Name: Ready to Read
Project Director: Jan Stephens
|
GA | $5,823,608.00 |
Applicant Name | Applicant State |
Federal Funding
Three Year Amount
|
United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
Project Name: APPLE: Atlanta Preschools Pursuing Literacy Excellence
Project Director: Sharen Hausmann
|
GA | $4,486,866.00 |
University of Hawaii--Center on the Family
Project Name: Hui A’o Mua
Project Director: Barbara DeBaryshe
|
HI | $3,812,216.00 |
Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois--Center for Literacy
Project Name: Opening the World of Learning
Project Director: Jeffri Brookfield
|
IL | $4,194,555.00 |
Chicago Public Schools, District #299---Early Childhood Education
Project Name: Enhancing Early Reading in Chicago (EERIC)
Project Director: Joan Berger
|
IL | $4,044,066.00 |
Illinois Action for Children---Early Learning
Project Name: Illinois Action for Community Early Reading First
Project Director: Diana Brown
|
IL |
$2,286,525.11
|
Little Sprouts, Inc.
Project Name: EPIC: Excellence, Passion, Innovation and Courage
Project Director: Meghan McGinley Crowe
|
MA | $4,395,813.00 |
University of Massachusetts Boston---Institute for Community Inclusion, Early Childhood
Project Name: Early Literacy Matters
Project Director: Lisa A. Van Thiel
|
MA | $3,763,701.00 |
Office of Public Instruction, Montana Office of--Education Services, Educational Opportunity and Equity
Project Name: The Montana Partnership for Early Literacy
Project Director: Deborah K. Hunsaker
|
MT | $6,090,241.00 |
Applicant Name | Applicant State |
Federal Funding
Three Year Amount
|
Columbus County Schools
Project Name: CORE: Communities Organizing for Reading Excellence
Project Director: Tammy Jordan
|
NC | $4,319,641.00 |
Southwest Institute for Families and Children--New Mexico Chapter
Project Name: Pump Up the Volume in Preschool (PVIP)
Project Director: Karen Burstein
|
NM | $5,628,801.00 |
Binghamton City School District
Project Name: Project CLEAR (Creating Learning for Equal Access to Reading)
Project Director: Tonia Thompson
|
NY | $4,317,831.00 |
Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Education Services---Human Resources Department
Project Name: Bridges to Literacy (BtL)
Project Director: Roberta Senzer
|
NY | $3,277,488.00 |
Olean City School District
Project Name: MADE: Make A Difference Early
Project Director: Lynn Corder
|
NY | $2,749,102.00 |
The University of Akron---Curricular and Instructional Studies, College of Education
Project Name: Teaching Technology Transfer for Language and Literacy Learning in Child Care Centers (TLC3): An Innovative Approach
Project Director: Terry Hallett
|
OH | $3,726,887.00 |
Connecting for Children and Families, Inc
Project Name: Phenomenal Readers: Northern Rhode Island’s Early Reading Project
Project Director: Terese Curtin
|
RI | $3,329,172.00 |
The Providence Plan
Project Name: Ready to Learn
Project Director: Leslie Gell
|
RI | $3,930,000.00 |
Applicant Name | Applicant State |
Federal Funding
Three Year Amount
|
Mt. Pleasant Independent School District
Project Name: Community of Readers (CoRe)
Project Director: Michelle Huffman
|
TX | $3,095,291.00 |
South San Antonio Independent School District
Project Name: STARS (Systematic, Targeted, and Appropriate, Reading Strategies)
Project Director: Mourette Hodge
|
TX | $4,500,000.00 |
Norfolk Public Schools
Project Name: Project PURPLE (Preschoolers Up on Readiness, Pre-Reading and Literacy Enrichment)
Project Director: Myrna C. Simmons
|
VA | $4,500,000.00 |
Puget Sound Educational Service District--Learning and Teaching
Project Name: Highline Foundations for Literacy
Project Director: Kay E. Lancaster
|
WA | $4,102,582.00 |