CPB and PBS submitted the proposal jointly to the Department of Education. WTTW, the PBS member station in Chicago, submitted a separate proposal, and will receive a grant of more than $7 million ...

The project is funded by a Ready To Learn grant [PR/Award No. S295A200004, CFDA No. 84.295A] provided by the Department of Education to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Our sites ...

Spokespersons for the Department of Education did not respond to a request for comment. Ready To Learn is a competitive grant program funded in five-year increments and authorized under the Elementary ...

The CPB said that it was informed by the Department of Education on Friday that the 2020-25 Ready to Learn grant was being canceled, forcing it to inform PBS and 44 public media stations to pause ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and PBS have received a Ready To Learn grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. The grant will ...

“CPB and our national partners are urging Congress to maintain CPB’s two-year advance appropriation and reject any recissions proposals,” Barsoum added. In response to Ready To Learn cuts, Barsoum ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which backs NPR and PBS, said in a statement on Tuesday that the Department of Education had terminated a federal grant program that funded shows for children.

CPB strongly pushed back against the decision and said it would work with Congress and the administration to restore the funding. Kate Riley, president and CEO of America’s Public Television Stations, ...