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Challenges in filling Head Start seats and future expansion plans
1:25:12
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Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about identifying areas where Head Start seats are not being filled and the challenges faced. The DOE official acknowledges that they have located these areas but needs to provide more specific information later.
- The DOE has analyzed data to identify areas with vacancies and spoken with providers to determine community needs.
- Specific challenges in filling seats were not immediately available and require follow-up.
- Council Member Joseph emphasizes the need for early learning programs, especially for parents returning to work.
- There is interest in potentially expanding early learning programs to middle-class families across the city.
Rita Joseph
1:25:12
Have you located the areas where these seats are not being filled in?
Monique Scales
1:25:18
Yes.
1:25:18
So that that's part of the dataset that the team has looked at to see where there are vacancies, where there is the issue, and speaking with the providers to determine what the community needs.
Rita Joseph
1:25:30
And what are some of the issues that you're coming across?
Monique Scales
1:25:33
So I would have to get back to you on that specifically, I apologize.
Rita Joseph
1:25:39
Okay, I know I know there's a big need for early learn.
1:25:42
So we're looking to see if these seats could get filled up because I'm sure in communities that's a that's a unique niche to have parents that want to go back to work, right, and hopefully we would love to see that expanded to middle class families as well across the city and having early learned infant to toddlers, but those numbers we have to work on them.
1:26:09
Councilmember Narcisse.