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Head Start and after-school leaders warn proposed pre-K changes could strain services and reduce slots
Summary
Leaders from Vermont AfterSchool and Head Start testified that folding or shifting UPK funding could create staffing, licensing and facility challenges for after-school programs and force Head Start grantees to cut slots because of layered funding and intensive family services.
Leaders from Vermont AfterSchool and Head Start told the House Human Services committee that proposed changes to Universal Pre-K risk adverse effects for community providers and the most vulnerable children.
Nicole Miller, executive director of Vermont AfterSchool, said the after-school system is not currently structured to absorb large numbers of 3- and 4-year-olds: funding streams, licensing rules and staffing patterns are built around K-12 ages. "There is one site out of 94 using 21st Century…
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