Hechinger Report | Two of nation’s largest Head Start providers must fight for funds in Obama administration quality push

Hechinger Report | Two of nation’s largest Head Start providers must fight for funds in Obama administration quality push:

Two of nation’s largest Head Start providers must fight for funds in Obama administration quality push

by Sarah Garland

Lady Bird Johnson visiting a classroom for Project Head Start in 1966.

New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) is at risk of losing a $190 million grant, after the federal government included it on a list of 132 substandard Head Start agencies across the country this week.
Head Start is the half-century-old federal preschool program for low-income children. ACS, among the oldest and largest Head Start agencies in the country, did not meet the “quality thresholds” set by the federal Office of Head Start, according to a list made public Tuesday by the Administration for Children & Families, which oversees the