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Section 35A-15-303  \nrequires the Utah State Board of Education, in consultation with the School Readiness team, to conduct an ongoing review and evaluation each school year of grant recipients under the Becoming High Quality School Readiness Program and Expanded Student Access to High Quality School Readiness Program. The State Board is required to submit an annual report including a summary of an evaluation of these programs to the Education Interim Committee.  \nPreschool: Grants for High-Quality School Readiness Programs  \nEXECUTIVE SUMMARY  \nDuring the 2019 General Session, the Legislature passed Senate Bill 166, School Readiness Amendments, to improve the coordination and alignment of preschool programming. This report is provided to the Education Interim Committee as a summary of an evaluation of and the efficacy of the High Quality School Readiness (HQSR) Grant Programs. During the 2023-2024 school year, the HQSR Becoming High Quality (BHQ) and Expanded Student Access (ESA) preschool grant programs served 40 preschool programs comprised of 9,610 students, with 24% qualifying as eligible students as defined in the statute. Overall, students entering kindergarten from high-quality public preschool programs had a higher proportion of students proficient in literacy and numeracy than students from non-high-quality public preschool programs. High-quality preschool participants performed at higher levels than the state average in literacy and at the same level as the state average in numeracy..  \nBACKGROUND  \nIn the 2014 General Session, the Legislature passed House Bill 96, Utah School Readiness Initiative, which provided funding for preschool programs. The Utah School Readiness (SR) Initiative operated to increase school readiness, improve academic performance, and reduce remediation costs associated with poor educational outcomes. Under the Initiative, the SR Board could enter into results-based financing contracts with private entities to fund proven highquality early childhood education programs serving at-risk students. The HQSR Grant Program was also established with this Initiative. Existing preschool programs could apply for this funding to improve the elements of quality in their program. The program was designed so that the improvements were implemented over the course of three years, at which point the participating program could transition to the HQSR-Expansion program.  \nIn 2016, in Senate Bill 101, the High-Quality School Readiness-Expansion (HQSR-E) grant program was established to expand access to HQSR programs for eligible children. The HQSR-E program provided grant funds to LEAs and private providers with existing early education programs deemed high-quality, as determined by the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, Third Edition (ECERS-3) and some additional rubric criteria. SR programs were eligible to apply for HQSR-E funding if they provided services to four-year-old children who were economically disadvantaged, could illustrate how funds would be used to expand their preschool programs, and were deemed high-quality based on the criteria noted above. The HQSR-E program ended in June 2019 but was replaced by the Expanded Student Access (ESA) ","cbCaigIgKGlxMR41","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaigIgKGlxMR41","pdf",889794,"English","# Executive Summary\n## Program Participation\n# Background","[{\"question\":\"What statutory requirement governs this report?\",\"answer\":\"The report is required by U.C.A. 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