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Fewer Basalt/El Jebel kids in Eagle County Head Start

http://www.coloheadstart.org/programs/Eagle-County-School-District-Early-Childhood-Program

Eagle County’s Head Start released its annual report for families helped in 2014, showing that the program serves ten families in the El Jebel and Basalt area. Maggie Swonger is Early Head Start Manager for the county, which presented its latest report to Eagle County Commissioners this week.

“When the children have graduated, we’ve been very successful thanks to the [Roaring Fork] School District about getting all of those children right into preschool,” says Swonger, “at the Basalt Elementary School, for the Colorado Preschool Program.”

 

There used to be more kids from the Roaring Fork Valley in the Eagle County program, but recently families who were applying, had an income that was too high to qualify. Swonger says when available spots open, she’s hoping kids in the El Jebel and Basalt area will be accepted.

 

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