This Week In Education: Head Start: The Biggest Story No One's Talking About

This Week In Education: Head Start: The Biggest Story No One's Talking About

Head Start: The Biggest Story No One's Talking About

by Alexander Russo

One of the oldest and most unchanged federal education programs, Head Start, is slated for a major shakeup but no one except New America is paying much attention since there's rarely ever any news about Head Start besides changes in funding levels. What's the news now? The bottom 25 percent of grantees are soon going to have to re-apply for their grants along with newcomers, rather than being pretty much guaranteed continued funding. This means that programs might get better and that funding might shift, ever so slightly, to places where the numbers of low income families