[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 4]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR1305.6]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 1305_ELIGIBILITY, RECRUITMENT, SELECTION, ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE 

IN HEAD START--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 1305.6  Selection process.



    (a) Each Head Start program must have a formal process for 

establishing selection criteria and for selecting children and families 

that considers all eligible applicants for Head Start services. The 

selection criteria must be based on those contained in paragraphs (b) 

and (c) of this section.

    (b) In selecting the children and families to be served, the Head 

Start program must consider the income of eligible families, the age of 

the child, the availability of kindergarten or first grade to the child, 

and the extent to which a child or family meets the criteria that each 

program is required to establish in Sec. 1305.3(c)(6). Migrant programs 

must also give priority to children from families whose pursuit of 

agricultural work required them to relocate most frequently within the 

previous two-year period.

    (c) At least 10 percent of the total number of enrollment 

opportunities in each grantee and each delegate agency during an 

enrollment year must be made available to children with disabilities who 

meet the definition for children with disabilities in Sec. 1305.2(a). 

An exception to this requirement will be granted only if the responsible 

HHS official determines, based on such supporting evidence he or she may 

require, that the grantee made a reasonable effort to comply with this 

requirement but was unable to do so because there was an insufficient 

number of children with disabilities in the recruitment area who wished 

to attend the program and for whom the program was an appropriate 

placement based on their Individual Education Plans (IEP) or 

Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSP), with services provided 

directly by Head Start or Early Head Start in conjunction with other 

providers.

    (d) Each Head Start program must develop at the beginning of each 

enrollment year and maintain during the year a waiting list that ranks 

children according to the program's selection criteria to assure that 

eligible children enter the program as vacancies occur.



[57 FR 46725, Oct. 9, 1992, as amended at 63 FR 12658, Mar. 16, 1998]