[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: 45CFR1305.7]



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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. 1305.7  Enrollment and re-enrollment.



    (a) Each child enrolled in a Head Start program, except those 

enrolled in a migrant program, must be allowed to remain in Head Start 

until kindergarten or first grade is available for the child in the 

child's community, except that the Head Start program may choose not to 

enroll a child when there are compelling reasons for the child not to 

remain in Head Start, such as when there is a change in the child's 

family income and there is a child with a greater need for Head Start 

services.

    (b) A Head Start grantee must maintain its funded enrollment level. 

When a program determines that a vacancy



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exists, no more than 30 calendar days may elapse before the vacancy is 

filled. A program may elect not to fill a vacancy when 60 calendar days 

or less remain in the program's enrollment year.

    (c) If a child has been found income eligible and is participating 

in a Head Start program, he or she remains income eligible through that 

enrollment year and the immediately succeeding enrollment year. Children 

who are enrolled in a program receiving funds under the authority of 

section 645A of the Head Start Act (programs for families with infants 

and toddlers, or Early Head Start) remain income eligible while they are 

participating in the program. When a child moves from a program serving 

infants and toddlers to a Head Start program serving children age three 

and older, the family income must be reverified. If one agency operates 

both an Early Head Start and a Head Start program, and the parents wish 

to enroll their child who has been enrolled in the agency's Early Head 

Start program, the agency must ensure, whenever possible, that the child 

receives Head Start services until enrolled in school.



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