News in Brief
Head Start Grantees Must Recompete
The federal government has told 122 recipients of Head Start funds that they must recompete for their grants, a process created to improve the quality of the preschool program offered to low-income children. They include some Head Start programs that are under the auspices of school districts, such as the Morgan County district program in Fort Morgan, Colo.; the program run by the Recovery School District in Louisiana; and Mercer County Head Start in Ohio, run by Celina city schools.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the $8 billion Head Start program, said those organizations were selected because they've had their licenses revoked, have had fiscal or management issues, or have had deficiencies discovered in their on-site federal monitoring review.
This is the second group of Head Start recipients to be told that they need to recompete for their funds. In December 2011, 132 programs were selected for "designation renewal," as the government calls the competition process. The results of that competition were to be released this past December, but with no explanation, the federal government delayed that announcement until the spring.
Vol. 32, Issue 18, Page 5
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