City's Pre-K 4SA awards North East ISD $801,000 grant to add Pre-K classrooms

The number of full day Pre-Kindergarten classrooms in the North East Independent School District will increase from 10 to 17 with the help of an $801,000 grant from city’s Pre-K For SA program.

The funds will also increase opportunities for family engagement and enhance the quality of the district’s Pre-K program by improving staff qualifications, according to the winning proposal submitted by North East ISD.

The Pre-K 4SA, officially known as the City of San Antonio Early Childhood Education Municipal Development Corporation, sought proposals that would improve program and teacher quality and support Pre-K through 3rd grade alignment, said Colleen Bohrmann, Executive Director of Learning Support Services.

“This District’s leadership realizes that success begins at an early age when a child’s curiosity develops along with the mind and the body,” said Bohrmann. “However, as funding from state and local resources become more limited, so do the options that educators have to offer our children.”

The grant will fund a program uniquely designed by North East ISD educators to provide a high-quality Pre-K program. This will be accomplished by enhancing staff qualifications, creating outdoor learning environments, increasing teacher capacity through social emotional learning, providing professional learning, supporting instruction, and sustaining family engagement and arts integration.

Beginning this fall, the grant will make possible the addition of seven full-day Pre-K classrooms at East Terrell Hills, Montgomery, Windcrest and Wilshire elementary schools. Each campus will serve the children in their attendance area.

North East educators interested in seeking grants can access the grants mini base created by the district’s Government Relations and Grant Development Department. District educators must be signed into the district’s intranet system to access: https://www.neisd.net/Page/471.  Watch the video on the “Grant Training and Writing” page before starting the grant writing process.