Program Description PACE is based on the belief that the school performance of children is closely related to their family's educational attainment and economic status. The program's philosophy is that parent involvement in children's education is crucial to their academic success, but that parents feel unqualified to play an active role. PACE combines preschool for 3 and 4 - year olds with Adult Basic Education and parenting education in a daytime format. PACE seeks to raise parents' educational levels, to improve the children's learning skills to increase parents' educational expectations for their children, and to develop positive relations between home and school. PACE is a family support program that focuses on family literacy.
PACE meets three days a week during regular school hours throughout the academic year.
Parents and children arrive together, usually on school transportation. Breakfast and lunch are served at the school. The classroom program emphasizes decision making and active learning. Parents teach children's classes for one hour. Children take naps at school.