Bright from the Start receives the 2009 Most Improved Customer Service Organization Award

Georgia's Pre-K Division receives Customer Service Award

Innovations in American Government Award, Harvard University and the Ford Foundation

State Innovation Award, Education Commission of the States

Overall grades of A awarded to Georgia's Pre-K Program math and language/literacy content standards by the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA)

Georgia's Pre-K Program recognized as EXEMPLARY by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER)