Weak Head Start Programs in Jeopardy

10/26/2010

Weak Head Start Programs in Jeopardy

If I could jumpstart every child's life... I would engage in one-on-one conversation, listen with all my being to whatever the child says, and continue to dialogue for as long as the child engages.
Ann Lewin-Benham, education leader and author, 1939-2023

In one of the biggest changes to Head Start in its 45-year history, the US Department of Health and Human Services has announced proposed rules that would force low-performing programs to compete for their federal funding.

About 1,600 Head Start grantees around the country run programs for low-income preschool children at a cost of about $7.2 billion annually. According to a report in Education Week (October 6, 2010), at least a quarter of the grantees being evaluated in any given year — those falling behind a certain performance threshold — would be required under the new rule, to 'recompete' for their grants against other interested entities in the community. The requirement would also apply to Early Head Start, which serves pregnant women, infants, and toddlers.

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