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Excerpts: The Head Start Act, 1998
As Amended October 27, 1998
Quality Standards; Monitoring of Head Start Agencies and Programs
Sec. 641A [42 U.S.C. 9836A]
The Secretary shall establish by regulation standards, including minimum levels of overall
accomplishment, applicable to Head Start agencies, programs, and projects under this
subchapter, including—additional education performance standards to ensure that the
children participating in the program, at a minimum:
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Develop phonemic, print, and numeracy awareness;
Understand and use language to communicate for various purposes;
Understand and use increasingly complex and varied vocabulary;
Develop and demonstrate an appreciation of books; and
in the case of non-English background children, progress toward an acquisition of the
English language.
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