Many Head Start Classes Go Back Online Amid Covid Surge … The decision came as the delta variant spread rapidly in communities served by the federally funded preschool program.
Hawaii’s largest provider of a federally funded preschool program for low-income families has resumed all-virtual instruction after just a few weeks back in class as the Covid-19 surge hit some neighborhoods with Head Start programs particularly hard.
The decision by the Honolulu Community Action Program to cease in-person learning on Sept. 1 for all of its 76 Head Start classrooms, which have the capacity to serve 1,500 children on Oahu, stands in contrast to the one-off school closures and temporary quarantines across the Hawaii Department of Education.
Grant Kogami, director of the Head Start program, said the high coronavirus case counts, which have been driven by the aggressive delta variant, left administrators little choice.
