April 24, 2023
FTLF partners Nicole Bacon and Edward “Ted” Waters will present at the National Head Start Association’s (NHSA) National Head Start Conference taking place May 8-11 in Phoenix, AZ. Their two sessions, including [...]
January 9, 2023
On January 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start (OHS) promulgated a Final Rule updating the Interim Final Rule [...]
November 15, 2022
This week, FTLF Senior Counsel Phillip Escoriaza will participate in the Region II Head Start Conference in San Juan, PR. Both of his sessions will be conducted in Spanish. On Tuesday, November [...]
October 3, 2022
On September 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Head Start (OHS) issued Information Memorandum (IM) ACF-IM-HS-22-07 on Reporting Child Health [...]
May 25, 2022
In two recently released training modules, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (OIG) encourages programs in Indian Country, including Head Start, Low Income Home Energy Assistance [...]
April 29, 2022
Nationally recognized Federal Grants attorneys Ted Waters and Nicole Bacon will present at the 49th Annual National Head Start Conference in Baltimore, MD on May 2-5, 2022. Mr. Waters and Ms. Bacon will lead a [...]
February 11, 2022
FTLF attorneys Nicole Bacon, H. Scott Johnson, Jr, and Ted Waters will present at the Head Start Region IV Annual Training Conference and Expo taking place February 15 – 18, 2022 in [...]
January 20, 2022
On January 13, 2022, a divided United States Supreme Court issued two landmark opinions on vaccination mandates, which may foreshadow the fate of the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children [...]
January 14, 2022
In a per curiam opinion, a divided United States Supreme Court stayed the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”) vaccination and testing emergency temporary standard (ETS), thereby rejecting the immediate imposition of a [...]
January 4, 2022
Two recent court decisions provide temporary relief to Head Start programs facing a January 31, 2022 deadline from the Biden administration that mandated vaccines for all workers and masks for all students aged [...]