U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
ACF
Administration for Children and Families
Program Instruction
To: Head Start and Early Head Start Grantee and Delegate Agencies
Subject: School Readiness in Programs Serving Preschool Children
The purpose of this Program Instruction (PI) is to emphasize requirements contained in the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act (the Act) that agencies "...shall establish...program goals for improving school readiness of children participating in a program...including school readiness goals that are aligned with the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework [recently revised as The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework], State early learning standards as appropriate, and requirements and expectations of the schools the children will be attending." (Head Start Act, section 641A(g)(2)(A))