Many Indiana Head Start programs will soon start cutting students from their rosters, a move many program directors hoped to avoid in the wake of automatic federal budget spending cuts.
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A proposal to use a shuttered elementary school as an early learning center is contingent on Richmond Community Schools receiving a Head Start grant. But the school district isn’t the only one with plans for the building. A charter school for diploma-seeking adults is also interested in the space, writes Brian Zimmerman for the Palladium-Item: Last summer, RCS closed [...]
Head Start program directors are looking for ways to reduce expenses that don’t involve cutting kids from the program even as automatic federal spending cuts reduce their budgets by 5 percent.
President Obama announced last month he wants to make preschool available to every 4-year-old in the country. He’s proposed a cost-sharing program with the states to enroll more students from low- to middle-income families in high quality early childhood education. Currently Indiana is one of 11 states that doesn’t provide public money for preschool, but [...]
Next week we’ll continue covering what the automatic federal spending cuts mean for Indiana schools.
Indiana stands to lose about 1,000 of its Head Start slots if Congress doesn’t act to stop deep, automatic spending cuts — known as “sequestration” — from kicking in March 1.
President Obama proposed “working with states to make high-quality pre-school available to every child in America.” Here’s a sampling of the reaction from Hoosiers on Twitter.
Indiana school districts say it’s bette
The American Association for School Principals released a report Tuesday detailing how schools are bracing for the possibility of across the board federal spending cuts, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week: Of those surveyed, 69.4 percent are betting they’ll have to cut professional development, and 58.1 percent say they’d expect to cut enrichment, after-school, and [...]
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