United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2006-07-27 monographic deposited born digital 72 p. GA 1.13:GAO-06-767R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R P0b002ee180375534 f:d06767r DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R GAO-06-767R Children Cost analysis Education program evaluation Financial analysis Safety regulation Safety standards Transportation research Transportation safety Waivers Program implementation Head Start Program Correspondence A57542 The leading cause of death for children ages 3 to 7 is motor vehicle traffic crashes. Head Start, a federal early care and education program run by local grantees and targeted at low-income children, currently serves approximately 900,000 children, and transports many of them to and from Head Start centers across the country. While not required to do so, many Head Start grantees offer transportation as a way to make Head Start more widely available to the eligible population, especially very poor children. To address concerns about transporting children safely, the 1992 Head Start Improvement Act directed the Office of Head Start, housed within the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), to develop transportation regulations to ensure the safety and effectiveness of transportation services made available to children by Head Start grantees. Head Start issued these regulations in 2001. To provide Congress with information that it requested on the regulations and their implementation, we determined: (1) the research and cost information Head Start considered in establishing the transportation regulations; (2) the actions Head Start grantees have taken to implement the vehicle, restraint, and bus monitor requirements of the regulations and the number of grantees that have sought waivers and extensions; and (3) the associated expenses and effects of implementing the regulations on grantees and their transportation partners. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R.pdf GAO-06-767R https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-767R Correspondence GAO-06-767R; Head Start: Progress and Challenges in Implementing Transportation Regulations; Children Cost analysis Education program evaluation Financial analysis Safety regulation Safety standards Transportation research Transportation safety Waivers Program implementation Head Start Program Public Law 109-149 Public Law 109-234