Cleaner Classrooms and Rising Scores: With Tighter Oversight, Head Start Shows Gains
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/04/us/politics/head-start-preschool.html
After a Head Start program in Jacksonville FA was last seen five years ago with unclean conditions such as moldy classrooms, littered with safety hazards, and unfit teachers, the nonprofit Urban League funding it has since been replaced with Lutheran Services Florida. The classrooms are now clean, there are more qualified teachers, and the quality has now reached the average for the federal standard. These changes are creating new standards within its program, with the conclusion that the nation's biggest preschool program, Headstart, is getting better.
I think this is a really good step in the direction of providing better conditions for poverty programs, such as Headstart. Before, programs like these have been pushed to the side and no changes have really been made to improve the quality for these kids, but now slowly classrooms across the country are been cleaned up and improved.
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