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Head Start director: program fully enrolled with $3.1 million grant, space and staffing limit expansion
Summary
Director Tracy Johnson told the board Head Start is fully enrolled (11 classrooms serving 154 children) under a five-year grant worth about $3,100,000 and said a lack of classroom space and certified staff constrains expansion despite a healthy wait list.
Tracy Johnson, Head Start director, presented the program's annual orientation and student outcome data to the Grand Forks School Board.
Johnson said the program is in the second year of a five-year federal grant and that the award for the year is about $3,100,000. She said the required non-federal share (in-kind) is about $792,000 and that last year the program exceeded its in-kind contribution by about $300,000.
"We are fully enrolled," Johnson…
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