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South Portland to pilot mixed-delivery pre-K with Chickadee and United Way; up to 32 new free seats proposed
Summary
Assistant Superintendent Johanna Prince proposed a mixed-delivery pre-K pilot with two community partners that could add up to 32 state-funded free pre-K seats for 2025–26, passing through roughly $8,570 per seat from the state (potentially about $270,000 if fully filled). The board will consider formal action on March 10.
Assistant Superintendent Johanna Prince told the South Portland Board of Education the district has two community partners ready to pilot a mixed-delivery pre-K program for 2025–26 and asked the board to consider the proposal at its March 10 meeting.
Under the plan Prince described, the district would develop memoranda of understanding with Chickadee Toddler Care and Preschool and with United Way of Southern Maine to add up to 32 publicly funded pre-K seats. Prince said the state allocates $8,570 per child in the district’s ED 279 calculation; if both partner sites filled all seats for the full year, about $270,000 would “pass through” to those providers via invoicing.
Prince described mixed delivery as a partnership in which a school administrative unit collaborates with licensed private childcare or family childcare providers to expand free public pre-K…
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