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East Baton Rouge Parish’s 40-year-old Head Start program could soon come to an end due to lack of federal funding, WAFB reports.
Yolana Burnett-Lankford, the city-parish’s chief services officer, told the Metro Council on Wednesday that the federal grant that funds the program terminates on June 30. She says she hasn’t heard from the federal government whether or not the application to renew the grant has been approved—a decision that was supposed to have been made by March 30.
There are currently more than 600 students in the city-parish’s Head Start program. The program has a stated goal of promoting school readiness in children ages 3 to 5 through services centered around early learning and development, health and family well-being.
