Partnership aims to bring Head Start to community colleges

Image:  Community colleges serve high numbers of parenting students, but too few institutions have campus childcare centers, or sufficient spots to meet demand, to help these students persist and graduate. At the same time, Head Start, a federally funded program offering free early childhood education to low-income families, is suffering from enrollment declines and staffing shortages. The National Head Start Association (NHSA) and the Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)...