Policy

Find out how the new Performance Standards address Program Governance. Review the requirements around the formal structure for the oversight of quality services for Head Start children and families.

Explore an overview of the Eligibility, Recruitment, Selection, Enrollment, and Attendance (ERSEA) services in Head Start. 

Explore the requirements on suspension and expulsion in the new Program Performance Standards. The new Standards clearly prohibit the expulsion of children from Head Start programs and set strict limitations on the use of temporary suspension.

Review the eligibility and selection requirements in the HSPPS. Explore what programs must do to ensure, based on their community needs assessment, the most vulnerable children and families are selected and served.

Watch this overview of the Program Structure section, an addition to the Head Start Program Performance Standards related to program options.

Listen as Head Start leaders go through the first section in Subpart B—Program Structure, which details the three standard program options.

Review the standards around program structure, education services, and Human Resources management in the home-based program option. 

View this video to learn the structure of the family child care program option, including the design and delivery of educational services, and staff qualifications.

Explore the new Education and Child Development Program Services section, which has combined all previous Program Standards related to education and child development services into a birth to 5 approach.

In this video, review the education requirements for curricula and effective teaching practices in the HSPPS.