Preschool Development Grants B-5
PDG B-5 RESOURCES
- Preschool Development B-5 Grants
- PDG B-5 State and Territory Map
- PDG B-5 Grant Awards (2022 - 2023)
- PDG B-5 Policy & Guidance
- National Technical Assistance Center for PDG B-5
- Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five Report to Congress, Highlighting a Sampling of PDG B-5 Grant Activities Between 2019–2021
- PDG B-5 IM (PDG B-5-ACF-IM-01) Instructions for Requesting Changes in the Existing Scope of Work to Increase Support for the Early Childhood Workforce (September 5, 2022)
- PDG B-5 Annual Convening 2023
DATA & REPORTS
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
In January of 2014, the FY2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 113-76) provided $250 million for Preschool Development Grants. On August 18, 2014, the U.S. Department of Education & the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services posted the Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) for the "Preschool Development Grants."
Funds were available for two types of grants: Development Grants (for states with small Pre-K programs or not State Pre-K) and Expansion Grants for states serving more than 10% of eligible children and/or a Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grant. Performance reports for the PDG program are located here.
Preschool Development Grants B-5
As part of the Every Student Succeeds Act (enacted in 2015), Congress switched the administration of the Preschool Development Grant Program from the U.S. Department of Education to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, while the Preschool Development Grants were not changed in title, the purpose of the grants was completely revised to reflect birth to age five, rather than the pre-k years only.
This Initial one-year grant differs significantly from the Preschool Development Grants that are presently funded. The PDG B-5 grant targets comprehensive statewide birth through five needs assessment, strategic planning, parent choice and knowledge about mixed delivery systems, and sharing best practices prior to implementation of any quality initiatives states identify in a strategic plan developed based on what is learned from their needs assessment.
No state with a score below 70 will be eligible to receive a grant. All states, starting with the highest score and moving to the lowest score above 69, will be awarded a grant until all funds are expended.
HEAD START & EARLY HEAD START DATA
- Head Start Program National Stats (2023)
- Head Start Program State Stats (2023)
- FY2023 HHS, Office of Head Start Fact sheet on program participation and funding
- 2023 State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2023 State Profiles, State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2023 State Pre-K Eligibility Levels
- 2023 Percentage of Preschool Children in State Preschool
- 2023 Preschool Spending by State
- 2023 State Supplemental Funding for Head Start and/or Early Head Start
- 2022 State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2022 State Profiles, State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2021 State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2021 State Profiles, State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2020 State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- 2020 State Profiles, State of Preschool Annual Yearbook (NIEER)
- Supporting Teachers in State Funded Pre-K, Workforce & Compensation (NIEER)
- Dr. James Heckman, the Heckman Equation (Return on Investment)
- Dr. Tim Bartik, Investing in Kids (Return on Investment)
- Meta-analysis on Early Learning Evaluations
- The Long-Term Effects of Universal Preschool in Boston Full Report (May 2021)
- Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through 10th grade (Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2021)
- Investing in Our Future: The Evidence Base on Preschool Education (Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Christina Weiland, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Margaret R. Burchinal, Linda M. Espinosa,William T. Gormley, Jens Ludwig, Katherine A. Magnuson, Deborah Phillips, Martha J. Zaslow, 2013)
- The Current State of Scientific Knowledge on Pre-Kindergarten Effects (Brookings, 2017)
- President Biden’s plan for free universal preschool – 5 questions answered (Christina Weiland, University of Michigan)
- The Road to and from Salary Parity in New York City: Nonprofits and Collective Bargaining in Early Childhood Education (The New School, Center for New York City Affairs, January 2020)
- Not Fade Away: How a “Pathbreaking Model” from New Jersey Could Support Early Education Equity (Early Learning Nation, June 2021)
- Early Childhood Education: What do we know and what should be we do? (Brookings, 2023)
PRESCHOOL Grants Under Every Child Succeeds Act Reauthorization Conference Report (S. 1177)
Section 9212 of the Every Child Succeeds Act includes a new Preschool Development Grant Program.
Pre-K Reports
- Preschool for All: Investing In a Productive and Just Society (CED, 2002)
- Unfinished Business: Continued Investment in Child Care and Early Education is Critical to Business and America’s Future (CED, 2012)
- Tackling Economic Inequality, Boosting Opportunity: A Blueprint for Business (CED, 2016)
- Sustaining Capitalism, Early Education and Child Care: The Essential Sector (CED, 2020)
- Building a Universal Preschool System Around Head Start (Children's Equity Project, August 2021)
State Evaluations:
- Alabama’s First Class Pre-K Program, Outcomes and Impacts: A Summary of Results (January 2020)
- Boston Public Schools Pre-K
- Georgia State Pre-K Evaluations (Frank Porter Graham Institute)
- Effects of New Jersey's Abbott preschool program on children's achievement, grade retention, and special education through 10th grade (Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2021)
- NYC Pre-K for All (2016)
- Evaluation of the NYC Pre-K for All Initiative, 2014–15 Implementation Study Report: Curriculum and Instruction
- Evaluation of the NYC Pre-K for AllI, Evaluation of the New York City Pre-K for All Initiative, 2014–15 Implementation Study Report: Program Supports
- North Carolina Pre-K Program
- Seattle Pre-K Evaluation
- San Antonio, Pre-K 4 SA Evaluation Report (2018)
- A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Tulsa Pre-K, Based on Effects on High School Graduation and College Attendance (Bartik, Gormley, Sept. 2022)
Mixed Delivery
- Toward a Consensus Vision for Early Childhood Development in New Mexico (NMCCEA, 2018) Full Report and Executive Summary
- California Moves Toward Universal Pre-K (New America, June 2021)
- Why some early childhood advocates want more transitional kindergarten choices (EdSource, June 2021)
- Bipartisan Policy Center, Mixed Delivery Video (August 16, 2021)
- A Quality Preschool Mixed Delivery System That Meets The Needs Of New Jersey Children, Families, Providers, Staff And Taxpayers (NJ ECEA, February 2023)
- State Preschool in a Mixed Delivery System: Lessons From Five States (NIEER, March 2023)
- Including Family Child Care (FCC) Programs in Publicly-Funded Pre-K: Conditions for Success (NIEER, March 2023)
Early Intervention
