LTC 354-2022 City of Miami Beach Information Sessions for Prekindergarten Scholarship Program Interested Providers 2023-24DocuSign Envelope ID: B0AF5CDC-25D2-4F1 E-A484-E53CE9AAAEEE
MIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO. LTC # LETTER TO COMMISSION
To:
From:
Date:
354-2022
Honorable Mayor Dan Gelber and Members of the City Commission
Alina T. Hudak, City Manag ~
August 31, 2022
Subject: City of Miami Beach Information Sessions for Prekindergarten Scholarship Program
Interested Providers 2023-24
The purpose of this Letter to Commission is to update you on the status of the City of Miami Beach's
Prekindergarten (PreK) Scholarship Program for Miami Beach residents for the 2023-2024 school
year, approved at the December 8, 2021 Commission meeting. The Prekindergarten Scholarship
Program expanded hourly access to high quality PreK providers during the 2021-22 Pilot year for 57
families receiving up to $2,700. The program was expanded by Commission in December 2021 for the
2023-24 school year to provide 158 families with a $3,000 PreK scholarship.
Staff from the Office of Organizational Development Performance Initiatives has successfully
developed and automated the application and invoicing process for this scholarship program as it
enters its second year of implementation for the 2022-23 school year with 92 PreK youth receiving the
scholarship at a total funding of $248,400 and 18 PreK providers participating (see attached).
As the application for eligible and interested families will open on October 13, 2022, staff will meet with
current providers throughout September 2022 for individual sessions on our newly automated PreK
platform and has scheduled a series of informational sessions for new PreK providers for the 2023-24
school year via Zoom on the following dates and times (flyer attached):
Monday, October 3 rd at 1 :00pm
Friday, October 7 th at 11 :0Oam
Zoom Webinar link: https://tinyurl.com/5xazj5vw
Meeting ID: 574 796 9101 Passcode: 2oyB5P
Or by telephone (929) 205-6099 Passcode: 401682
New PreK providers may apply beginning October 3, 2022 at www.miamibeachfl.gov/prekprovider,
which provides an overview of the program and eligibility criteria. Information about these sessions
has been posted to the city's website and shared with the Early Learning Coalition of Miami-Dade, the
Office of Early Learning/Florida Department of Education, and Florida Department of Children and
Families.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me or Dr. Leslie Rosenfeld, Chief Learning and
Development Officer.
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# of Children by Prekindergarten City of Miami Beach Provider 2022-23
Greater Miami Hebrew Academy 1
Kinderland 4 Kidz 9
Lehrman Community Day School 4
M-DCPS I preparatory Academy 1
M-DCPS Miami Beach South Pointe Elementary School 7
M-DCPS North Beach Elementary School 3
Miami Children's Museum Early Childhood Institute 1
Muss Family Montessori at Temple Emanu-el 12
Rainbow Intergenerational Learning Center 4
Sephardic Congregation of Florida: Temple Moses 3
Shalom Montessori School 5
Super Y Academy 1
Temple Beth Sholom Innovative School 19
Toras Emes Academy of Miami: Yeshiva Toras Chaim Toras Emes 3
Vivi's Child Care 2
Yeshiva Elementary 17
Total Students Participating 92
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Miami Beach Prekindergarten Program
Information Sessions for Providers
The City of M ia mi Beac h hos approved a Prekindergarten Scho larship
Progra m for the 2023-2 4 sc hoo l year that wi ll provi de eligible Miami Beac h
fwni li es wit h a Pro-K scholarshi p of up lo $3,000.
• Eligi ble Pre-K p roviders ore invited to partake in one of the information
sessions being offered on how your organization con regis ter lo participate in
this program.
Monday, Oct . 3 , 2022 al 1 p,m.
Friday, Oct .7 , 2022 at 11 a.m.
Zoom Webinor link:
hllps://linyurl.com/5xaz j5vw
M ee ting ID: 57 4 796 910 I Passcode: 2oyB5P
Or by telephone 929.205 .6099 Possco de: 401682
Provi der opp licolion : www.miamibeachff.gav/prekprovider
~DCF Licensed (Identification num ber} Pre-K Providers Only
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