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Scholarships
Overview
The Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program is a 4-year pilot proposed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, funded by the Minnesota Early Learning Foundation, and coordinated by City of Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman’s office. The Scholarship Program provides families with information and resources to help them choose, pay for, and stay in high-quality early childhood education (ECE) programs. In turn, ECE programs can use scholarship resources to increase and sustain quality programming.
What do families receive?
Scholarships
At age three, children receive a scholarship to pay for full- or part-time, center or family-based child care and early education services. The scholarship will cover a family’s co-payments to attend the ECE program. Parent mentors help families choose the best ECE program for their child.
Qualifications
To be in the program, families must:
- Have a child who will be three years old on or before September 1, 2009.
- Live in the Frogtown, North End, or Payne Phalen neighborhoods.
- Have an annual income less than 185% of the Federal Poverty Guideline, (about $38,000 for a family of four).
Families apply to the program only one time. Children who get scholarships keep them even if their family’s income changes or if their family moves (as long as they stay in Ramsey or Hennepin counties).
Applying
Families who want to apply, please contact the Resources for Child Caring at (651) 641-6604.
If you would like to talk about this application with someone who speaks Hmong, Somali, or Spanish, please call the Language Access Line at (651) 665-0150 or (888) 291-9811.
Scholarship Application for families.
For more information, contact Vallay Varro, Early Education Project Coordinator at (651) 266-8576.
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