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The Citizen your username your email Password recovery Fayette FACTOR Project Manager Michael Mumper speaks to a community gathering. Photo/Fayette FACTOR website. The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) has awarded a 2021 2Gen Innovation Grant to Fayette FACTOR, Inc. Located in Fayetteville, Georgia, Fayette FACTOR, Inc. will collaborate with both adult-serving and child-serving organizations to identify, prioritize, and connect children with high-quality early learning an...

ATLANTA – The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) has released the application for new and returning providers of Georgia’s Pre-K Program for the 2021-2022 school year. Applications to provide Georgia’s Pre-K Program for the next school year must be received by DECAL by Friday, March 19, 5 p.m. EDT.   Georgia’s Pre-K Program is an educational program funded by the Georgia Lottery for Education. The purpose of the program is to prepare children for succes...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) is seeking applications for Georgia’s Pre-K Program Teachers of the Year for 2021-2022. DECAL will select a winner from

ATLANTA – Gov. Brian P. Kemp and Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning (DECAL) Commissioner Amy M. Jacobs Wednesday announced plans to provide $1,000 supplemental payments to eligible Pre-K teachers, assistant teachers, and child care teachers in Georgia. The payments will be funded through the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds provided in the most recent Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021. These payments are targeted for programs that remained open th...

Gov. Kemp: Georgia Lottery raises over $731M for HOPE, Pre-K By Kim McCullough | January 28, 2021 at 8:44 PM EST - Updated January 29 at 6:14 AM ATLANTA, Ga. (WALB) - On Thursday, Gov. Brian Kemp announced the Georgia Lottery Corporation’s most profitable first half since its inception in 1993. A release from the governor’s office said the Georgia Lottery generated more than $731,281,000 in profits for the first half of the fiscal year 2021, bringing the total transferred to the...

Nearly 60% of Shirley Miller Scholarships Awarded to Georgia Southern University Students January 12, 2021 The Zell Miller Foundation recently announced it awarded $50,000 in Shirley Miller Scholarships for the Spring 2021 semester to 127 HOPE Scholars at 13 public colleges and universities across Georgia. Of those 127 scholarships, 73 of them were awarded to Georgia Southern students, the most of any institution. Monica Kearse “The HOPE and Shirley Miller Scholarships have helped me, not onl...