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Increases in Head Start Change in Scope Requests from FY21 to FY24 Have Resulted in the Largest Reduction of Funded Slots in the History of Head Start

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Authors
Alayna Schreier
  • The total number of Head Start Change in Scope requests increased from 104 in FY21 to 886 in FY24.
  • The majority of Change in Scope requests were for enrollment reductions, with over 19 times as many requests in FY24 as compared to FY21.
  • Despite the federal operations budget for Head Start increasing by about 11 percent between FY22 and FY24, Change in Scope requests during that period resulted in a loss of 97,625 funded slots, with nearly 90 percent of that loss occurring in Head Start Preschool as compared to Early Head Start.

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Files
Head Start Change in Scope Data Point (pdf, 407.71 KB)
Topics
Early Care & Education
Product Type
ASPE Data Point
Populations
Children | Infants & Toddlers | Families with Children
Program
Head Start