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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How much is the current Head Start funding (total to DCPS and per-school)?

I’m wondering if the schools losing head start because of higher income parents could get parents together to subsidize Head Start level services.[/quote]

It. Is. A. Formula. Has nothing to do with whether some parents are viewed to be able to donate money.

DC is one of the few cities that has ECE for anyone who wants it (if they will travel). We've paid for our program with money from Head Start and city funding. The Head Start funds come with requirements related to staffing, training and material and facilities -- and that the money goes to support poor kids (it's ok if a few not poor kids are there too).

So what's happening is that DC is receiving less from the federal government than it has been. The city has to figure out how to distribute the Head Start money it will still have (not an insubstantial sum), within the rules of the grant which says it is for poor kids. And it will need to pay for the rest of ECE out of DCPS dollars.[/quote]

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