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Local Enough?

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Learn at your own pace, with an explanation after every answer. No score, no leaderboard – and not preparation for a citizenship test: just to know the country and your neighbours a little better.

Everyday life

What is Head Start?

  • A A federal tax refund for new parents
  • B A program that lets children start first grade a year early
  • ✕ A national after-school sports league Your answer
  • ✓ A federally funded early education program for young children from low-income families

Not quite.

Head Start provides early learning, health and family support services, mostly for children from birth to age 5 in low-income families. It is run locally with federal funding.

Source: HHS Office of Head Start (acf.hhs.gov/ohs)

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