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Head Start report: attendance and social-emotional goals met close to targets; grant will be streamlined
Summary
District Head Start leaders reported most early-childhood targets near or above expectations and said a forthcoming federal grant application will be reduced from 85 pages to a 30-page submission; staff emphasized continuity of operations and a pre-K–3 'P‑3' push-up approach.
Leaders of the Thompson School District Head Start program told the board the program met or nearly met key readiness and attendance targets and that the upcoming federal grant application will be streamlined.
The program presentation, delivered by the Head Start director, summarized multi-year data from the TSGold assessment. The presenter said the program set an 85% target for overall attendance and achieved 85.6% this period. In the language and literacy domain — measured by vocabulary, attending and understanding, phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge — the five-year target was…
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