Citing the Prince George’s County Public School system’s “failure to timely correct one or more deficiencies,” federal officials have ordered the termination of a $6.3 million grant for Head Start in Prince George’s County after a report detailed incidents of abuse and poor teacher training.
A scathing report from the director of Head Start at the Department of Health and Human Services detailed what it called “deficiencies” by the school system to correct teacher behavior involving Head Start instructors who used humiliation and corporal punishment to discipline children as young as 3.
The report said Head Start teachers should have been using positive methods to “guide behavior” but, in several cases, were using methods of humiliation and corporal punishment. The Head Start program is an early childhood program largely funded with federal dollars.
The Head Start program is administered through the Judy Hoyer Family Learning Center in Adelphi. The program serves 932 children.
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