By comparison, Woodstock District 200 has received about $68,000 out of an expected $1 million in grants for its preschool program this year.<\/p>\n
The District 200 school board voted to make the program tuition-based next year because of the uncertainty of state grant funding.<\/p>\n
Why are some district\u2019s receiving almost the full amount of grant money while payments to other district\u2019s are much further behind?<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have a clue,\u201d Tobias said.<\/p>\n
The grant-based program is aimed at students deemed<\/p>\n
at-risk. Students are screened based on a variety of criteria, including family income and academic development. Tobias said the whole point of the program was to take at-risk students, and through the preschool program, make sure that they were not behind developmentally by the time they reach school age.<\/p>\n
District 50 will hold pre-kindergarten screening from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 8 and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 9.<\/p>\n
The screening will take place at Trinity Lutheran Church at 504 E. Diggins St. in Harvard.<\/p>\n
Parents should bring three proofs of residency to the screening. Appointments are necessary and can be made at 815-943-6367.<\/p>\n
District 50 officials said that they were continuing the preschool program without any major changes. School officials still hope to expand the program in the future, noting that most years there has been a waiting list of at least 70 children.<\/p>\n
District 50 spokesman Bill Clow said that with the new Crosby Elementary School opening, the district would have more room at Washington School for preschool classes.<\/p>\n
By BRIAN SLUPSKI, bslupski@nwherald.com <\/a><\/p>\n Read the original article from the Northwest Herald<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n HARVARD — District 50\u2019s preschool program has not fallen victim to state budget woes. Like many preschool programs, District 50\u2019s is funded by state grants. Unlike many programs, District 50 has received most of the grant money that is expected from the state. Superintendent Lauri Tobias said that District 50 had received $428,000 out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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