[News] HHS Moves to Rescind Head Start's Rulebook and Hand Its Operating Standards to the States

A proposed rule would strike more than 1,400 federal regulatory provisions governing Head Start and let state licensing set ratios and standards instead, and the savings and enrollment figures the administration announced are larger than the ones in the rule's own impact analysis.

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[News] HHS Moves to Rescind Head Start's Rulebook and Hand Its Operating Standards to the States

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