Due to participation in Head Start, children’s vocabulary and reading skills do what?
What is increase?
100
How many billions of dollars annually does head start receive in federal funding?
What is $8 billion?
100
How many Head Start locations, offered through the Unity Council, are in Oakland?
What is 5 locations?
100
About how many students are assisted by Head Start in some way each year?
What is 1 million?
200
Head Start graduates are how many times more likely to buy a house by age 27 than their non-Head Start peers?
What is 3x?
200
How was Head Start affected by the government shut down earlier this year?
What is faced reality of not being able to stay open due to lack of federal funding and grants?
200
Between Head Start and Early Head Start, about how many families are served annually?
What is 600 families (608)?
200
Head Start was founded in what year?
What is 1965?
300
Head Start children receive more of what specific type of health care than their non-HS peers?
What is dental?
300
What benefit does Head Start’s new Birth-to-5 program provide to students (besides more time in class)?
What is more curriculum flexibility?
300
The Oakland Head Start curriculum is unique because it is based on two important elements based on their student population. What are they?
What is multilingual and multicultural curriculum?
300
Which month is Head Start Awareness month?
What is October?
400
List 2 benefits of Head Start.
What is cognitive, economic, social, and socio-economic?
400
A Head Start program in North Carolina called Operation Breakthrough targets a certain population in order to get them more connected to early childhood education. Who are they targeting?
What is men, specifically fathers?
400
List the ages of the children that Early Head Start works with and Head Start works with.
What is Early HS birth - 3 (& pregnant mothers) and HS 3-5?
400
Which popular TV station partners with Head Start?