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  • anyone know if it's possible to get accepted to a Head Start program if you are not poor (technically with the poverty guidelines)?

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    08.03.08, 04:58 PM [ Flag ]

    • Not sure about Head Start, but there are many subsidized pre-K programs that also take kids whose parents can pay (but they are far more affordable than private pre-Ks). I remember looking into this a few years ago and there are some programs that are eager to have kids whose parents can pay something to be mixed in with the 100% financed kids, and some of the programs are excellent, extremely well-resourced programs.

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      08.03.08, 05:07 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • no, it's not possible. you must meet the income requirement.

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      08.03.08, 06:00 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • nothing technical about demonstrating need. just numbers

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      08.03.08, 10:35 PM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Yes, but you have to pay.

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      08.04.08, 04:27 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • wrong. your income must below the poverty level.

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        08.04.08, 06:07 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • this is unfortunately true of the Head Start at PS 64, I just called. I'm hoping Bank Street Head Start has a different policy. I just cannot afford ds's daycare any longer :-(((.

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          08.04.08, 06:17 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

          • this is true of all head start programs. it is federally run. the schools themselves don't set the rules.

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            08.04.08, 06:41 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

            • That makes sense. It's just that someone whose kid went to one of the programs insisted I try to get in, saying she knew that people with more money had been in the program. But they must have had "creative" taxes

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              08.04.08, 06:42 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

    • Are you the same Mom asking about MKC? I live on the UES - I posted as a daycare Mom - and there is a daycare in a low-income housing complex right near Asphalt Green. It's in the very East 90s. Anyway, I wish I knew the name, but I have heard that it is a nice program and costs $800 per month or so if you are full paying. It's not for infants though.

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      08.04.08, 07:36 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

      • I wonder if you're thinking of Building Blocks playgroup? But that's more like $1200 a month. It's on 95th, used to be on 89th and 2nd avenue.

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        08.04.08, 07:45 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]

        • Oh, no - I am thinking of something in a complex. Maybe the Stanley Isaacs complex, but maybe not? Building Blocks does sound like a relative bargain though. My other thought is a nanny share...

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          08.04.08, 07:50 AM [ Flag | link to this post ]
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