State-Administered Prekindergarten Programs | Allocations and Financial Forms
Allocations lists and grant award lists are published annually. Districts and grantees refer to these lists to determine their maximum funding amounts.Ìý
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Allocations Lists for 2024-2025
New York State-Administered Prekindergarten programs will be funded by three funding sources during the 2024-2025 school year. The Office of Early Learning has provided this 2024-2025 Funding and Overview to summarize those sources.
The Office of Early Learning publishesÌýfield memosÌýexplaining allocations and grant award lists, including guidance on the following topics:
- Understanding Your 2024-2025 Prekindergarten Funding
- Half-Day Conversion Overage
- Maximum Grant Payable
Please Note:ÌýThe 2025 enacted State budget removed the supplement-not-supplant requirement for State funds, allowing school districts to access their SUFDPK grant awards before accessing or even exhausting their UPK allocations. Please see the Supplement not Supplant memo for direction and examples to aid you in your fiscal decision-making for the 2024-2025 prekindergarten program year.
Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) Allocations
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Grant Award Lists for 2024-2025
Statewide Universal Full Day Prekindergarten (SUFDPK) Grant Awards (14-15)
- New York State funded grant awards forÌýfull day four-year-old students
- Awarded during the 2014-2015 school year
SUFDPK Consolidated Grant Awards (21-24)
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Awarded during the 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 school years
Financial Forms
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ's provides financial forms and for managing funds. Consult Grants Finance's to access the most current and relevant forms and their instructions, including the following:
- FS-10: used for submitting an initial proposed budget
- FS-10-A: used to amend a previously approved budget
- FS-10-F: used to submit final expenditures for a previously approved budget
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UPK Consolidation Report
The 2024-2025 enacted state budget authorized and directed the Commissioner of Education to conduct a study on the consolidation of all prekindergarten funding streams and further directed the Commissioner to provide recommendations for legislative action necessary and appropriate to streamline the funding processes and programmatic implementation (§17-a of Part A of Chapter 56 of the laws of 2024). In addition, the New York State Board of Regents seeks to provide all eligible four-year-olds with full-day prekindergarten services by 2030, and then expand to full-day for all three-year-olds by 2035. This report is intended to build towards a roadmap to achieving this goal by identifying barriers to this work, including New York State’s complicated prekindergarten (PreK) funding and related laws. Each of the four dedicated Prekindergarten funding sources has varying requirements for quality standards and different mechanisms for data collection and reporting.