Head Start's Mental Health Support at Risk Under Proposed Rule
For about a year, a toddler – we’ll call him Mario to protect his confidentiality – has been periodically acting out in a Head Start program in San Francisco, throwing himself on the floor, crying, pushing, scratching and hitting other children.In many childcare programs, a child behaving this way could be kicked out, perhaps permanently – as happens to an estimated 250 children every day. But expulsions are prohibited under...
