San Antonio, TX
The San Antonio, TX, Grade-Level Reading Campaign is recognized as a Pacesetter for making
measurable progress on student readiness outcomes. In San Antonio for the 2013-14 school
year, approximately 2,265 children served by Head Start and Pre-K 4 SA were determined to be
school ready.
The local Campaign used a diverse combination of strategies to achieve its readiness outcomes,
including home visiting and other programs that offer messages, tools and supports to help
parents and caregivers succeed in promoting early language and literacy and healthy on-track
child development; universal comprehensive health, social emotional, and developmental
screening with follow-up; intervention and supports; community-wide efforts to create
language-rich and book-rich environments for children before they start school to help them
build vocabulary; and a set of policy supports, resources and programs to improve availability of
and access to high-quality early care and learning opportunities for children across a variety of
programs and settings.
The San Antonio GLR Campaign reaches over 51,000 low-income children across 15 local school
districts. The Campaign regularly tracks the percent of children from low-income families in
accredited child-care settings, including publicly funded programs, Head Start and home-based
providers as a key measure of its overall impact on student outcomes. Reflecting on the
community’s progress since it joined the Campaign in 2012, local GLR Lead, Melody Woosley,
Director, Department of Human Services, City of San Antonio, commented, “The City of San
Antonio and our partners have built a strong local network of stakeholders dedicated to
collaborating to make measurable gains in early childhood education and care which serve as a
foundation for long-term academic success. This recognition is a direct reflection of the collective
investment that our community has made to achieve this goal.”
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading proudly recognizes the shared ownership for the
progress in San Antonio among the following members of the local sponsoring coalition:
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City of San Antonio
Pre-K4 San Antonio
San Antonio Public Libraries
United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
P16Plus Council of Greater Bexar County
Local School Districts
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Antonio
University of Texas at San Antonio
City Year San Antonio
Family Service Association
AVANCE – San Antonio