By D60 Staff

Waukegan Community Unit School District 60 learned this month that it has been awarded the Preschool for All (PFA) grant from the Illinois State Board of Education, which will allow the District to expand its preschool offerings to Waukegan’s families.
The State announced District 60 was selected to receive funding from the competitive PFA program, which provides funding directly to public school districts to be used to increase access to early health and learning services for children ages 3 to 5. Waukegan Public School’s tentative award amount is $3.57 million for this year, and an additional $3.57 million each of the three following years, contingent upon a sufficient appropriation for the program and satisfactory progress in the preceding grant period.
District 60 took several steps last winter and spring to position itself to reestablish PFA funding in Waukegan, including proactively sending staff to Springfield, where Clearview Elementary School Principal, Mr. Daniel Hill testified before the House Appropriations Committee on the importance of preschool funding. In addition, the District hired Ms. Rita Tate, an experienced grant writer, as its Manager of Strategy and Grant Writing, who wrote the PFA proposal for District 60 and spearheaded the grant application process.

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