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Better Outcomes for All: Promoting Partnerships between Head Start and State Pre-K |
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Center for Law and Social Policy: The authors conducted in-depth interviews with state pre-k program directors, Head Start collaboration coordinators, and providers of both Head Start and state pre-k programs in five states. To promote access to high-quality early education programs, state and local policymakers have developed innovative partnerships that benefit from the best each program model has to offer. These partnerships integrate multiple program models and funding sources to improve quality by hiring teachers with bachelor's degrees and by offering comprehensive health and family-support services. Collaboration between Head Start and state pre-k programs requires new relationships among state and regional administrators; among school superintendents, principals, and Head Start providers; and between teachers inside classrooms. The interviews conducted for Better Outcomes for All: Promoting Partnerships between Head Start and State Pre-K captured the advice of several people who have made the commitment and created successful partnerships. Investments in state pre-k programs have grown steadily over the last two decades, in part, because of the success of Head Start and in part because of increasing awareness of the value of early education. Pre-K Now and CLASP are grateful to the pre-k and Head Start leaders from state departments of education, Head Start-state collaboration offices, and local Head Start and state-supported pre-k programs who generously shared their insights, challenges, and solutions.
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