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Head Start meets enrollment goals
As of Sept. 8, the Public School System’s Head Start Program has met its funded enrollment requirement of 462 students, according to its director, Melissa Palacios, at a board meeting last week.
At the same time, Head Start was able to meet its requirement of having 10 percent children with disabilities, Palacios said. A total of 47 children with disabilities are currently enrolled in the program, according to her.
“We are currently providing services to those children and at the same time giving them the same educational opportunities as the rest,” she told the board.
A total of 102 children are on the program’s waitlist, according to her.
Head Start is currently conducting its 45-day assessment of all its children, to include hearing, vision, growth assessment, and early screening inventory, among other things. This information will be shared with the board on Oct. 22, Palacios said.
Along with 45-day assessment are another two 45-day assessments to include health and screening and the governance and leadership screening, as part of their federal non-competitive grant award.
Those assessments are ongoing, according to Palacios, and reports will be available on Oct. 22.
An unannounced visit by Head Start program specialists to validate some of these requirements is expected, according to Palacios.
