September 21, 2016
With the beginning of the school year, the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Head Start (OHS) released the final rule for the new [...]
October 30, 2015
With the passage of the 2007 amendments to the Head Start Act (the “Act”), Congress announced that existing and future Head Start grants would transition from “indefinite” project periods – i.e. project periods [...]
October 5, 2015
CLIENT ALERT: OHS Releases Aligned Monitoring System’s On-Site Review Protocols for Fiscal Year 2016
Last week, the Office of Head Start (OHS) released the Aligned Monitoring System’s on-site review protocols for fiscal year 2016. The protocols have been updated to reflect the new 45 CFR Part 75 [...]
September 16, 2015
On Tuesday, September 15, Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP, responded to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published on June 19, 2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 35430). FTLF’s comments are not indented to be [...]
July 16, 2015
On June 19, 2015, The Office of Head Start (OHS) issued the long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Head Start Performance Standards. OHS last revised the Performance Standards in 1998 and [...]
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June 10, 2015
On February 10, 2015, the Office of Head Start (“OHS”) issued new eligibility regulations as a Final Rule. Just in case you missed the last page of the new regulations, we want to [...]
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May 19, 2015
The Head Start program launched in the summers of 1965 and 1966 as a child development program entitled Project Head Start. Designed to help at-risk children in low-income families and end poverty, Head Start [...]
September 15, 2014
The Supercircular, 2 CFR Part 200, creates a critical new step for grantees that enter into arrangements with Subrecipients (also known as “delegates” in HS/EHS terminology). Prior to awarding funds to a delegate, [...]
August 29, 2014
The Office of Head Start (“OHS”) recently released a new Information Memorandum (IM), “ACF-IM-HS-14-04,” addressing bus transportation and safety. Child safety and active supervision have been hot button issues in Head Start/EHS. In fact, [...]
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April 28, 2014
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is honored to announce that Health Law group partners Edward “Ted” Waters, Susannah Vance Gopalan, and Kathy S. Ghiladi have been named as some of Washington, D.C.’s [...]
