The Families, Education, Preschool and Promise plan will, if passed, fund education from preschool through college. Investments in education would be as follows:
6% for investments in the Seattle Promise Program
- $43.8m for Seattle Promise
- $3.1 from Seattle Colleges
11% for K-12 school health services
- $1.4m for school-based health center at Nova High School
- An expected to increase in the number of school-based health centers from 25 to 29
29% for investments in K-12 school and community-based investments
- $12.9m to support K-12 Opportunity and Access investments
- $14.5m over the life of the levy to the family support program. “This level of funding should be sufficient to fund the equivalent of 15 full-time family support workers and their associated costs”
- $56.0m to elementary investments, including school-based investments, summer learning, and expanded learning opportunities
54% of levy will be allocated for investments in preschool and early learning services
- $2.8m to provide child care vouchers to a homeless child care program that provides child care vouchers to homeless Seattle families so that they can complete housing and stabilization activities
- $4.0m to a mentorship program for prospective child care providers
- An expected increase number of children served by SPP from approx. 1500 per year to approx. 2500 per year