FULL-DAY REQUIREMENTS.

142D.124 FULL-DAY REQUIREMENTS. (a) A minimum of 50 percent of the total state-funded enrollment in Head Start programs, including in licensed child care programs, throughout the state must be provided in full-day services. (b) Head Start programs may provide full-day services as part of their own program model or through agreements with full-day licensed child care programs. If licensed child care programs do not exist in a geographic area, choose not to participate, cannot meet the federal Head Start performance standards after sufficient opportunity, or a Head Start program is unable to establish the full-day services as a part of their own program model, the Head Start program may request exemption from the commissioner. History: 2007 c 146 art 9 s 3; 2024 c 80 art 4 s 1,26; 2024 c 115 art 16 s 42