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PERFORMANCE
The Early Learning Coalition was delighted to distribute almost $55,000 in bonus awards to
Manatee County providers who participated in The Early Learning Performance Funding
Project in 2016-2017.
Checks were personally delivered to the eight participants by ELC staff members.
purpose is to increase the programming quality of providers serving children funded with School Readiness
dollars. All participating providers must have a substantially clean licensing record for the past two years,
must agree to participate.
training on the Classroom Assessment Scoring System or CLASS, and be pre- and post-assessed with
the CLASS.
participate in four coaching sessions, and must purchase and use one of three online child assessment
funding.
The providers receive a base allocation, paid quarterly,
for meeting specific deliverables, with reporting
required as to how the funding will be spent
toward quality. At the end of the project year,
the CLASS post-assessment scores are
compared with the CLASS pre-assessment
scores. Providers are then awarded bonus
dollars for levels of improvement in each
classroom active in the project, with
reporting again required.
We congratulate these providers
for their hard work and dedication
to serving our most vulnerable
children. We look forward to more
and even higher awards for 2017-
2018!