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Former Head Start participant credits Maricopa County program for early academic success
Summary
Ashley Lopez said Maricopa County's Head Start program helped her young parents learn parenting and financial skills, enabled her to graduate high school a year early, win scholarships, and return as an intern and volunteer leader.
Ashley Lopez, a former Head Start participant, said Maricopa County's Head Start program provided her family key parenting and economic resources and set her on a path to academic success.
Lopez told the meeting transcript that her parents were teenagers when she was born and that Head Start offered them guidance on parenting and household economics. "My parents were young parents, 14, 15 year olds with a child. So for Head Start to give them the research on how to parent on how to handle their…
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