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"Head Start was not able to open due to the chaos in the district," said Alaina Howard, Head Start's Policy Council chairwoman. "The district has already violated about 27 federal regulations and isn't following its own policy on resolving the dispute."
"It will be a more efficient use of Head Start dollars. All our pre-K programs should work toward a common goal," he said. "But by law, it has to remain separate (from the district's pre-K program) and the policy council has a lot of say. Maybe we weren't as sensitive to them as we needed to be.""I think the policy board's major complaint was not being involved in the planning and," Barone-Martin said, "we'll have better procedures in the future so we don't have this miscommunication."See the full content of this document
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Dispute Delays Head Start
Though thousands of students in the Pittsburgh Public School District went back to school Sept. 2, the district's federally funded Head Start program will not begin until Sept. 13.
"Head Start was not a...See the full content of this document
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