House Committee Preparing Its Own Head Start Bill
The House education committee will seek to address funding for Head Start, the monitoring system for local programs, and the role of parent-led councils in governing Head Start centers when it considers the reauthorization of the federal preschool program, likely this month.
Rep. Dale E. Kildee, D-Mich., said he was looking for “suggestions for improving the relationship between the Department of Health and Human Services and local Head Start programs to make it a supportive relationship that helps programs reach the high standards to which they aspire,” at a hearing Feb. 28 of the early childhood subcommittee, which he chairs.
The Education and Labor Committee could release its Head Start reauthorization bill as early as this week and has tentatively scheduled a committee vote on it for March 14. The Senate, Health, Education Labor, and Pensions Committee approved its own version of the legislation by a voice vote on Feb. 14. ( "Head Start Renewal Advances Amid Debate Over Testing," ...
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