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Head Start director: program fully enrolled, $3.1 million grant and focus on school readiness
Summary
Director Tracy Johnson told the board Head Start is fully enrolled with 11 classrooms serving 154 children under a $3.1 million grant, reported in-kind matching and described school-readiness goals and required federal performance standards.
Tracy Johnson, director of Head Start programming that partners with Grand Forks Public Schools, told the board the federally funded Head Start program is fully enrolled and continuing to meet federal performance standards while working to reduce attendance barriers.
"We are in the second year of our five-year grant. This year we were given about $3,100,000 to run our program," Johnson said, adding the program carries an in-kind match requirement of $792,000 and that last year the district exceeded its in-kind target by roughly $300,000.
Johnson said Head Start serves 154…
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