Final Rule to Delay Effective Date for Increasing the CLASS Instructional Support Domain Competitive Threshold
Log Number: ACF-OHS-PI-24-07 | Issuance Date: 11/06/2024
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Designation Renewal System
The Designation Renewal System (DRS) holds Head Start agencies accountable for delivering high-quality and comprehensive services to the children and families they serve, and meeting program and financial requirements. The DRS establishes seven conditions to determine whether programs qualify for continued Head Start funding for five years without competing for those funds with other local agencies. Open competitions are held in communities in which a program meets one or more specified conditions. In this case, interested agencies may apply to provide Head Start services in that area through a funding opportunity announcement (FOA). Any agencies that do not meet one of the seven DRS conditions become eligible to receive a new five-year grant noncompetitively. The DRS was established in 2011 and revised in 2020.
Data on Improving Quality in Head Start Programs
Four reports provide evidence that, since the last reauthorization, quality in Head Start has increased across the country..
DRS by the Numbers (2011-2016)
Learn more about DRS. This report provides extensive data, including characteristics of the programs required to compete and the competition outcomes across all four cohorts of DRS implementation. Learn more about past findings by grant size, geography, and grant type, including Tribal grants.
Report on Head Start Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) Data
Explore this report based on data from the fiscal years 2012-2015 regarding the use of the CLASS Pre-K® instrument during monitoring reviews of Head Start grantees.
Use of Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) in Head Start Programs
This resource will help you understand how CLASS® can be used for professional development and will explain how it is used within OHS for program monitoring purposes.
Awardees Resulting from DRS Cohort 4
Awardees Resulting from Designation Renewal System (DRS) Cohort 4
Awards Made for DRS Cohort 4 Service Areas
Grantees Required to Compete for Continued Funding
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notified an additional 90 Head Start grantees that they have been designated to compete for continued Head Start funding. These grantees have been designated to compete as they met a specified condition during the course of their grant period. With this fourth cohort of notifications, all grantees have been evaluated under the Designation Renewal System (DRS). The national Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS®) summary information for 2014 also has been posted.
Awardees Resulting from Designation Renewal System (DRS) Cohort 3 and Other Competitions
Awardees Resulting from Designation Renewal System (DRS) Cohort 3 and Other Competitions
Awards Made for DRS Cohort 3 Service Areas
A System of Designation Renewal of Head Start Grantees: Report of the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Re-designation of Head Start Grantees
The Advisory committee recognizes that implementing the designation renewal system is a complex endeavor, and hopes the recommendations in the report will provide guiding principles for the establishment of a transparent, valid, and reliable system.
Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM): Designation Renewal System Changes
An NPRM proposing changes to the Head Start Designation Renewal System (DRS) was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 13, 2019. It addresses the Classroom Assessment Scoring System: Pre-K (CLASS®) condition and the fiscal condition related to audit findings.
