This tables of contents is a navigational tool, processed from the headings within the legal text of Federal Register documents. This repetition of headings to form internal navigation links has no substantive legal effect. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •. Start Preamble Start Printed Page 61294 AGENCY: Office of Head Start (OHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: This final rule modernizes the Head Start Program Performance Standards, last revised in 1998. In the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, Congress instructed the Office of Head Start to update its performance standards and to ensure any such revisions to the standards do not eliminate or reduce quality, scope, or types of health, educational, parental involvement, nutritional, social, or other services programs provide.

This rule responds to public comment, incorporates extensive findings from research and from consultation with experts, reflects best practices, lessons from program input and innovation, integrates recommendations from the Secretary's Advisory Committee Final Report on Head Start Research and Evaluation, and reflects the Obama Administration's deep commitment to improve the school readiness of young children. These performance standards will improve program quality, reduce burden on programs, and improve regulatory clarity and transparency. They provide a clear road map for current and prospective grantees to support high-quality Head Start services and to strengthen the outcomes of the children and families Head Start serves. DATES: Effective Date: Provisions of this final rule become effective November 7, 2016. Compliance Date(s): To allow programs reasonable time to implement certain performance standards, we phase in compliance dates over several years after this final rule becomes effective. In the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section below, we provide a table, Table 1: Compliance Table, which lists dates by which programs must implement specific standards.

Start Further Info FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Colleen Rathgeb, Division Director of Early Childhood Policy and Budget, Office of Early Childhood Development, at or (202) 401-1195 (not a toll free call). Deaf and hearing impaired individuals may call the Federal Dual Party Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. Eastern Time.

End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Table of Contents I. Executive Summary II. Tables Table 1: Compliance Table Table 2: Redesignation Table III. Background a. Statutory Authority b. Purpose of This Rule c.

Rulemaking and Comment Processes d. Overview of Major Changes From the NPRM IV. Discussion of General Comments on the Final Rule V.

Discussion of Section by Section Comments on the Final Rule a. Program Governance b. Program Operations 1. Subpart A Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment and Attendance 2. Subpart B Program Structure 3. Subpart C Education and Child Development Program Services 4. Subpart D Health Program Services 5.

Subpart E Family and Community Engagement Program Services 6. Subpart F Additional Services for Children With Disabilities 7. Subpart G Transition Services 8. Subpart H Services to Enrolled Pregnant Women 9. Subpart I Human Resources Management 10. Subpart J Program Management and Quality Improvement c. Financial and Administrative Requirements 1.

Subpart A Financial Requirements 2. Subpart B Administrative Requirements 3. Subpart C Protections for the Privacy of Child Records 4. Subpart D Delegation of Program Operations 5. Subpart E Facilities 6. Subpart F Transportation d. Audiosurf Free Full Version Download Mac there. Federal Administrative Procedures 1.

Subpart A Monitoring, Suspension, Termination, Denial of Refunding, Reduction in Funding and Their Appeals 2. Subpart B Designation Renewal 3.

Subpart C Selection of Grantees Through Competition 4. Subpart D Replacement of American Indian and Alaska Native Grantee 5.

Subpart E Head Start Fellows Program e. Definitions VIII. Regulatory Process Matters a.

Regulatory Flexibility Act b. Regulatory Planning and Review Executive Order 12866 1. Need for Regulatory Action: Increasing the Benefits to Society of Head Start 2. Cost and Savings Analysis i. Structural Program Option Provisions ii.

Educator Quality Provisions iii. Curriculum and Assessment Provisions iv. Administrative/Managerial Provisions 3. Benefit Analysis 4. Accounting Statement 5. Distributional Effects 6. Regulatory Alternatives c.

Examine the regulatory process matters from part 2 of the preamble of the 2016 Head Start Program Performance Standards. Explore Resources. Effective Dates.

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Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 Tribal Consultation Statement I. Executive Summary Head Start currently provides comprehensive early learning services to more than 1 million children from birth to age five each year through more than 60,000 classes, home visitors, and family child care partners nationwide.

[] Since its inception in 1965, Head Start has been a leader in helping children from low-income families enter kindergarten more prepared to succeed in school and in life. Head Start is a central part of this Administration's effort to ensure all children have access to high-quality early learning opportunities and to eliminate the education achievement gap. This regulation is intended to improve the quality of Head Start services so that programs have a stronger impact on children's learning and development. It also is necessary to streamline and reorganize the regulatory structure to improve regulatory clarity and transparency so that existing grantees can more easily run a high-quality Head Start program and so that Head Start's operational requirements will be more transparent and seem less onerous to prospective grantees. In addition, this regulation is necessary to reduce the burden on local programs that can interfere with high-quality service delivery. We believe these regulatory changes will help ensure every child and family in Head Start receives high-quality services that will lead to greater success in school and in life. In 2007, Congress mandated the Secretary to revise the program performance standards and update and raise the education standards.

[] Congress also prohibited elimination of, or any reduction in, the quality, scope, or types of services in the revisions. [] Thus, these regulatory revisions are additionally intended to meet the statutory requirements Congress put forth in the bipartisan reauthorization of Head Start in 2007. Start Printed Page 61295 The Head Start Program Performance Standards are the foundation on which programs design and deliver comprehensive, high-quality individualized services to support the school readiness of children from low-income families. The first set of Head Start Program Performance Standards was published in the 1970s. Since then, they have been revised following subsequent Congressional reauthorizations and were last revised in 1998.

The program performance standards set forth the requirements local grantees must meet to support the cognitive, social, emotional, and healthy development of children from birth to age five. They encompass requirements to provide education, health, mental health, nutrition, and family and community engagement services, as well as rules for local program governance and aspects of federal administration of the program. This final rule builds upon extensive consultation with researchers, practitioners, recommendations from the Secretary's Advisory Committee Final Report on Head Start Research and Evaluation, [] and other experts, public comment, as well as internal analysis of program data and years of program input. In addition, program monitoring has also provided invaluable experience regarding the strengths and weaknesses of the previous program performance standards. Moreover, research and practice in the field of early childhood education has expanded exponentially in the 15 years since the program performance standards governing service delivery were last revised, providing a multitude of new insights on how to support improved child outcomes. The Secretary's Advisory Committee, which consisted of expert researchers and practitioners chartered to provide “recommendations for improving Head Start program effectiveness” concluded early education programs, including Head Start, are capable of reducing the achievement gap, but that Head Start is not reaching its potential.

[] As part of their work, the Committee provided recommendations for interpreting the results of both the Head Start Impact Study (HSIS), [] a randomized control trial study of children in Head Start in 2002 and 2003 through third grade, and the Early Head Start Research and Evaluation Project (EHSREP), [] which was initiated in 1996 and followed children who were eligible to participate in Early Head Start. The Committee concluded that these findings should be interpreted in the context of the larger body of research that demonstrates Head Start and Early Head Start “are improving family well-being and improving school readiness of children at or below the poverty line in the U.S. Today.” [] The Committee agreed the initial impact both Head Start and Early Head Start have demonstrated “are in line with the magnitude of findings from other scaled-up programs for infants and toddlers...

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