During a visit to the Chadwick Schools in Christian County on Tuesday, Governor Jay Nixon announced a competitive funding award of more than 937-thousand dollars for the non-profit organization, Community Foundation of the Ozarks.
The funding, authorized by the Missouri Department of Economic Development, will be used to assist Chadwick School District in constructing a new 5-thousand square-foot pre-kindergarten facility, allowing the district to offer an early childhood education program.
So far this year, Nixon has announced 11 Missouri Start Smart early childhood education projects across the state, serving more than 12-hundred pre-school age children.