CEDAR GROVE PARENTS CONCERNFD
Head Start
Officials Eye Expansion Plan
BY TERRY POPE
Head Start officials were to meet
with community leaders in Bolivia
Tuesday night to discuss ways to ex
pand services to Brunswick
County's pre-school age children.
Richard Green, executive director
of Four-County Community Ser
vices of Laurinburg, outlined for a
group of about 30 parents at Cedar
Grove Monday the Head Start pro
gram's goals for 1992-93. Four
County operates three Head Start
programs in Brunswick County.
One site eyed for a possible cen
ter is the Pincy Grove Community
Building at Bolivia, the former
Brunswick County Schools alterna
tive education center.
The federal Head Start program,
launched in 1965, provides children
age 3 to school entry from low-in
come families with education and
health care to help them break the
cycle of poverty.
Some parents say ihey don't like
the proposed changes.
Head Start plans to expand ser
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STAFF PHOTO BY TERRY POPE
FOUR COUNTY Community Senices Executive Director Richard
Green (right) talks with Linda and Abdul Green of Supply, no rela
tion, following a meeting at the Cedar Grove Head Start Center
Monday.
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vices from four days to five (lays a
week at all sites.
In the process, however, it will re
duce the number of children served
at the Cedar Grove center by half.
Beginning in July, instead of 40
children receiving two days a week
service. 2i) children will receive five
days a week scrvicc. It is an attempt
to increase contact time with teach
ers and volunteers, said Green.
Some parents have criticized the
move. They say a questionnaire ask
ing parents if they would like fivc
day-a-wcck scrvicc at Cedar Grove
did not mention that the number of
children would be cut in half.
"We discussed that it should have
been on there," said Green. "I'm ad
mitting that we were not forthright
with that. It wasn't done intentional
ly. I object to die insinuation that
there's some coverup involved.
There's been some mistakes made,
but it wasn't done intentionally."
Four-County hopes to open anoth
er center in Brunswick County with
additional expansion funds from the
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suiic. It is been negotiating lor space
for a center in the Lcland area.
The Cedar Grove Center's com
mittee said its top priority is to move
the Cedar Grove Head Start program
to the larger Piney Grove building in
Bolivia and to expand services to SO
children live days a week there, said
committee President Lynnc Wicg
man.
Second on its priority list, said
Ms. Wiegman, is to expand the
Cedar Grove ccntcr to accommodate
40 children five days a week.
There will be 2% children cut
from Four-County's Head Start pro
grams in for the 1992-93 year, she
said, some of whom will be in
Brunswick County.
"There's another benefit to that
which is very positive," said Green ol
the proposal to cut enrollment at the
Cedar Grove site. "We increase con
tact time. What we propose to do is
increase contact time by 60 percent."
The plan will have to be approved
by the Head Start regional office in
Atlanta.
"Whal happens to the other 20?"
asked Carolyn Frink. policy council
chairperson at ihc Cedar Grove cen
ter.
Marian Mclvin, sccrctary of the
Cedar Grove committee, said she
supported the five days a week pro
gram because she wasn't aware that
it meant cutting the number of chil
dren served in half. While 40 chil
dren are being served at the center,
there are at least 90 in the communi
ty identified as in need of services,
she said.
"I think a lot of other parents felt
the same way," said Ms. Mclvin.
"What we're saying is it's better lo
serve 40 children two days a week
than 20 five days a week."
Of the live counties served by
Four-County, Brunswick County
has been picked to benefit from ex
pansion, said Green. He was to meet
with community leaders, including
Bolivia's Franklin Randolph and
Brunswick County Four-County
Board of Directors member Roscoc
Butler Tuesday in Bolivia.
Randolph said he has complained
for years that Brunswick County
was being "short-chanced" when it
came to Head Start services and Unit
he has asked Four-County to open
live centers in the county.
Presently there arc three programs
with centers in Cedar Grove and
Long wood. A center in the North
west community was closed recently
and children served in that region
are being bused to a center in
Armour, in neighboring Columbus
County.
"It's high time Brunswick County
be brought up to standards," said
Randolph. "This is what I am holding
to, and this is what I am fighting for.'
Four-County receives funding to
serve 1,013 children in five coun
ties, or an average of S3.400 per
child.
"It is my hope that we may be
able to expand," said Green. "We're
getting more careful consideration
as we ask for more dollars to get our
enrollment back up. It's definite that
we're going to get another center."
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