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Align Preschool Education with Head Start |
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L. Baca |
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Relates to:
HJM 12, Study Alignment of Early Education programs
HB 191, Office of Early Education
SJM 2, Align Early Childhood
Programs
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
Responses
Received From
State
Department of Education (SDE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Joint Memorial
requests that the Legislative Education Study Committee conduct a study during
the 2003 interim to determine how early care education programs could be
aligned to establish a universal system of preschool education for three-and
four-year old children including how the Head Start program could be placed
under the auspices of the State Board of Education (SBE) and the State
Department of Education (SDE).
Significant
Issues
Head Start programs are designed to serve three-
and four-year olds from low-income families. The programs are child focused and
have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children from
low-income families. During fiscal year
2002, according to the SDE, 7,618 children were served in Head Start
programs, and program grantee were awarded $48,388.0 to meet the goals of Head
Start programs.
ADMINISTRATIVE IMPLICATIONS
SDE, the Children, Youth and Families Department
(CYFD), the Department of Health (DOH) and other state agencies; local
governments and non-profit organizations that implement Head Start programs
will have to cooperate to create a universal system for preschool education.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Head Start programs
are federally funded, and funds flow directly to the organization or government
entity implementing the program. The
only way a state can administer Head Start programs is block grants are award
to state by the federal government.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
1.
Will it be possible to get the various
agencies to work together on this project?
2.
Have these agencies been willing to
cooperate on these matters in the past?
3.
What do you see as the major obstacles to
achieving the goals of the memorial?
4.
Head Start is regarded as one of the most
successful federally created programs.
How will this improve the effectiveness of all early education programs?