PROVIDENCE – Nearly $1.85 million in federal funding has been allotted to expand access to early-childhood education and comprehensive services for children and families in Woonsocket, U.S. Sens. Jack F. Reed and Sheldon Whitehouse, and U.S. Reps. David N. Cicilline and James R. Langevin announced Wednesday.
“This federal funding will help ensure more kids get a high-quality start to school,” Reed said in a statement.
The Woonsocket Head Start Development Association will receive $1,848,524 to run and expand Head Start through the Administration for Children and Families Office of Head Start.
The federal funds support comprehensive early-childhood-development services, including classroom instruction, behavior guidance and nutrition services for 190 low-income children in Woonsocket.
“This funding will help Rhode Island kids hit the ground running when they get to kindergarten. That preparation pays off well beyond the classroom,” Whitehouse said in the statement. “I’m proud to fight alongside my colleagues in the delegation to support Head Start’s important work in Rhode Island.”
