Sixpence Early Learning Fund awards new grants

LINCOLN —The Trustees of the Sixpence Early Learning Fund announced this week that two new grants totaling $450,000 will be awarded to school districts in partnership with local licensed early care and education providers for at-risk infants and toddlers. Omaha Public Schools, in collaboration with Omaha Educare, and Loup City Public Schools, in partnership with ESU 10, were each selected for grant awards of $225,000 after a competitive application and review process. Sixpence, a collaborative funding structure involving the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Nebraska Department of Education, and private sector investors, has issued grants to community partnerships statewide since 2008, totaling 47 communities.