Examples of matching include the Head Start program, which requires that recipients provide 20% of the total annual expenses in either monetary or in-kind contributions.
Head Start is a state sponsored program which allows young children an early start to an education.
Grand Junction has one elementary school: Grand Junction Elementary School, and also a Head Start Program.
Head Start Program, a program of the United States Department of Health and Human Services
In 2011, Time magazine's columnist Joe Klein called for the elimination of Head Start, citing an internal report that the program is costly and makes a negligible impact on children's well-being over time.
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Jenny Is a Good Thing, an Academy Award nominated documentary on children and nutrition produced for Project Head Start
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In 1968, Head Start began funding a television program that would eventually be called Sesame Street, operated by the Carnegie Corporation Preschool Television project.
A model for child development laboratories, the research and model programs coming out of this institution eventually led to the development of national standards for the federal Head Start Program.
The Cultural Education Committee hopes to incorporate the Tiwa language into Head Start in the fall.
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Partnership: Local philanthropy, Head Start and Early Head Start, schools, parents, and families work together to ensure high quality programing.
Early childhood intervention may be provided within a centre-based program (such as Early Head Start in the United States), a home-based program (such as Portage in Britain), or a mixed program (such as Lifestart in Australia).
During his Congressional career, Hanley was known as a liberal, and supported the Great Society program of Lyndon B. Johnson, expansion of Medicare and Head Start, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
Since then he has been a senior adviser to Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, a non-profit set up by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's aimed at convincing the public of a need to shift 15% ($40 billion-plus) from defense procurement of Cold-War weapons to domestic programs such as child health insurance and Head Start.
The goal of the Head Start Program and of Early Head Start is to increase the school readiness of young children in low income families.
National Head Start/Public School Early Childhood Transition Demonstration Study, 1991-1999, set up in the United States to provide information on the achievements of the Head Start program for children living in poverty