Parent Aware for School Readiness (Pasr)

“Each board member receives an electronic copy of form 990 and reviews it before it is signed and filed.”

“Each year officers and directors are required to review and sign a conflict of interest statement.”

“The finance committee uses the annual review process and comparability data from the nonprofit salary survey to determine the executive director's salary.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available to the public upon request.”

“The mission of parent aware for school readiness is to use private sector strategies, strengths, and resources to focus minnesota on school readiness, serving as the channel for private support for parent aware, minnesota's quality rating and improvement system. Parent aware is designed to help parents find child care providers delivering high quality early learning programs to prepare young children for kindergarten readiness. Using a one-to four-star rating system, parent aware measures best practices identified by research that help children succeed in kindergarten and beyond. To tightly focus it's mission and foster a sense of urgency for helping minnesota children prepare for kindergarten as soon as possible, the pasr board of directors voted to eliminate itself at the end of 2016. In 2012, pasr was formed to swiftly and efficiently implement the melf-piloted and recommended market-based approach. To encourage the completion of that implementation-oriented mission by the end of 2016, the pasr board of directors voted unanimously to seize operations at the end of 2016. The year 2016 was chosen as the sunset date, because by 2015 the $45 million federal race-to-the-top grant, which is being used in part to implement the parent aware ratings and prekindergarten scholarships and many other pasr-recommended reforms, will be completed. In addition, by 2015 the parent aware ratings will have been implemented statewide. Therefore, there will have been a year to evaluate those initiatives, and make recommendations for making additional sustainable improvements into the future.”

“The finance committee assumes the responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant.”