State of Oklahoma Pilot Early Childhood Program
In 2006 CAP received funding from the Oklahoma Department of Education and private donors in the amount of $15 million for a state pilot program to expand and enhance early childhood education for low-income children ages birth through three. In 2007, this amount was increased to $25 million ($10 M from the State of Oklahoma and $15 M from private donors).
To implement this statewide pilot program, CAP is partnering with early childhood education providers in Oklahoma City and in rural areas of the state. As a result, the quality of very early childhood education has been enhanced for hundreds of children statewide and in the Tulsa area. In 2007 we increased the number of participating partner providers statewide, and in Tulsa we continue to serve an increasing number of very young children through this program.
In 2007, CAP opened two new early childhood education centers – Twin Cities in Sand Springs, Oklahoma (a suburb of Tulsa), and the Eastgate Early Childhood Education Center at the Eastgate Metroplex in east Tulsa. In 2008, three new state-of-the-art early childhood education centers opened in Tulsa—Skelly, Eugene Field and Rosa Parks. In 2009 we will open a new stand-alone center in Sand Springs, the Sand Springs Early Childhood Education Center.
