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Your local program will provide the required forms and answer your questions. They will also tell you what documents you should bring with you to apply. To find a Head Start or Early Head Start program near you: Use the Head Start Center Locator. Call 1-866-763-6481 (toll-free) from 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. ET, Monday-Friday. Email: headstart@eclkc.info.
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule on September 1, 2016 revising the Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS) to strengthen and improve the quality of Head Start programs. This action is part of the Administration’s early learning efforts to ensure that all children start school ready to succeed.
Q. Do these Standards also apply for Early Head Start? Yes. These new Standards apply to all Head Start grantees – Early Head Start, Head Start, Migrant and Seasonal Head Start, and American Indian and Alaska Native Head Start programs. Rules or exceptions that apply to only one type of program are clearly noted throughout the rule. Q.
The new standards require that all Head Start center-based programs offer at least 1,020 annual hours of service for preschoolers by August 1, 2021, with at least 50 percent of their center-based preschool slots meeting this requirement by August 1, 2019. Early Head Start center-based programs must also provide 1,380 annual hours of service by ...
The new Head Start Program Performance Standards: Provide research based program service requirements. Are written and presented clearly to support better program delivery for current and prospective grantees. Strengthen Education requirements and ensure all children will get the exposure to early learning they need to leave Head Start ready ...
The Migrant and Seasonal Head Start program serves children of farmworker families. The program is designed around the unique needs of families that change geographic locations for agricultural work or engage in seasonal agricultural labor.
Over the past two years, the Biden-Harris Administration has secured more than $1.2 billion in funding increases for Head Start. However, a persistent Head Start workforce shortage has forced many Head Start classrooms to close, contributing to a nationwide under-enrollment. Head Start programs report losing teachers to other employers ...
New Rule will raise most Head Start teacher annual wages by about $10,000. Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), announced a new final rule to strengthen Head Start’s ability to recruit and retain qualified staff, improve teacher wages and benefits, and provide consistent quality programming for the children ...
Head Start in 2007. The Head Start Program Performance Standards are the foundation on which programs design . and deliver comprehensive, high-quality individualized services to support the school readiness of children from low-income families. The first set of Head Start Program Performance Standards was published in the 1970s.
In the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, Congress instructed the Office of Head Start to update its performance standards and to ensure any such revisions to the standards do not eliminate or reduce quality, scope, or types of health, educational, parental involvement, nutritional, social, or other services programs provide.