Early Head Start awarded $18 million grant
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The Ohio State University Early Head Start Partnership Program was awarded a $18 million federal grant to provide high-quality early childhood education and services to Columbus families in low-income households through 2024. This is the second grant cycle awarded to the program in order to continue serving 160 at-risk infants and toddlers along with their families. In 2014, Congress appropriated $500 million to fund these Early Head Start Child Care Partnership grants nationwide, with a goal of partnering with existing child care centers and family child care home providers to raise the quality of early childhood education in the most...