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Head Start Has Changed Before. Why Does This Time Feel Different?

Head Start Has Changed Before. Why Does This Time Feel Different?

by Jerry Parr | Aug 25, 2026 | Classroom Monitoring, Community Collaboration, Early Childhood, Head Start, NPRM, Strategic Planning

In May 1990, I participated in my first federal Head Start monitoring review at the Inter-Tribal Council of California, under Lee Fields, then the Region XI/XII branch chief. I could not have known then that I was entering Head Start monitoring at a moment of...

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