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Early Head Start presenters detail enrollment, home visits and readiness targets
Summary
District Early Head Start staff reported program enrollment, home-visit completion rates and kindergarten-readiness goals, and said maintaining city funding requires staying fully enrolled; presenters described expansion plans and family-engagement targets.
Mary Miller Baker presented the district's Early Head Start and pre-K work, describing program enrollment, eligibility distinctions between Head Start and state pre-K, and partnerships that place early-childhood classes both at centers and on elementary campuses. She said the program serves younger children across Head Start and Early Head Start slots and highlighted partnerships with local agencies to support family engagement.
Baker outlined programmatic goals tied to kindergarten readiness, listed family engagement metrics (including required home visits and activity completion targets), and described fiscal constraints that tie some funding to maintaining enrollment thresholds. "We serve, 836 children who are pre k," she said when reviewing current site enrollments and explained the district's plans to expand classes to additional campuses while maintaining compliance with federal and state guidelines.
