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Richard Hendra; Johanna Walter; Audrey Yu – MDRC, 2024
Government agencies collect vast amounts of administrative data in their day-to-day activities, primarily for program operations. But the information is less often used as a research tool or fully harnessed for its evidence-building potential. This brief is the fourth in a series of publications from MDRC about the Temporary Assistance for Needy…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Evidence Based Practice, Program Administration
Leslie Hodges; Saied Toossi; Jessica E. Todd; Cayley Ryan-Claytor – US Department of Agriculture, 2024
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) provides supplemental foods, nutrition education, and referrals to healthcare and other social services to low-income, nutritionally at-risk women, infants, and children up to 5 years of age. About 40 percent of all infants and 22…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Nutrition, Females, Infants
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