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Jacqueline M. Nowicki – US Government Accountability Office, 2024
When a community loses its Head Start provider, the Office of Head Start (OHS) deploys its interim manager to temporarily operate this federally funded early childhood education program. Since 2000, OHS has placed more than 200 programs under interim management. As of September 2024, 18 of 1,600 Head Start programs nationwide were under interim…
Descriptors: Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Children
Jennifer W. Bouek – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
This article theorizes the wait list as an underexamined vehicle of administrative burden. Wait lists are now common within the U.S. social safety net, yet little research has considered their administration. Drawing on a surprising case of Massachusetts' declining wait list for subsidized childcare, I find that administrative burdens were…
Descriptors: Child Care, Program Administration, Access to Education, State Agencies
Carol Hafford; Marc Hernandez – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
The Survey of Head Start Grantees on Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) was conducted in program year 2019-2020 with a nationally representative sample of Head Start program directors and Head Start managers/coordinators to understand how Head Start grantees use T/TA of all types and from all sources. Head Start program directors completed…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Training Methods
Levin, Stephanie; Espinoza, Daniel; Griffith, Michael – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Approximately 1.3 million K-12 public school students across the United States were identified as experiencing homelessness in 2019-20. In all cases, the stress, instability, trauma, and school mobility created by homelessness increase risks to physical, social, and emotional health and to educational engagement and achievement. Districts play an…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, At Risk Students
Head Start's Interaction with Federal, State, and Local Systems. Research Brief. OPRE Report 2022-12
Bernstein, Sara; Reid, Natalie; Harrington, Jeffrey; Malone, Lizabeth – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Head Start is an essential part of the programs and funding streams that provide early care and education (ECE) services to young children in the U.S. Head Start focuses on supporting children and families with low incomes, but also contributes to the broader effort to expand access to high quality ECE for all young children. Programs and…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Social Services, Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education
Billings, Kara Clifford – Congressional Research Service, 2021
The federal government has a long history of investing in programs for feeding children, starting with federal aid for school lunch programs in the 1930s. Today, federal child nutrition programs support food served to children in schools and a variety of other institutional settings. The child nutrition programs support meals and snacks served to…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Lunch Programs, Food