May 23, 2017
At our trainings on the Head Start Program Performance Standards, we always get a lot of questions on the requirements for background checks on new hires. What do you need to know? Who [...]
May 17, 2017
The Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (“Uniform Guidance”), generally applicable to federal awards made on or after December 26, 2014, contains certain standards with which all federal [...]
May 12, 2017
Two weeks ago, a federal judge in San Francisco temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from enforcing the President’s Executive Order (EO) on “Sanctuary Jurisdictions.” The EO proposes to cut off federal funds from [...]
April 10, 2017
FTLF Managing Partner Edward “Ted” Waters was recently interviewed on Michigan NPR’s “Stateside” where he discussed issues surrounding the threatened discontinuation of federal grant funding to “sanctuary cities.” The interview aired on Friday, April 7, [...]
March 14, 2017
FTLF’s Managing Partner Edward (Ted) Waters’ Op-Ed on Trump’s Sanctuary Cities Executive Order and its impact on public services was printed today in “The Hill”. “Little known is the fact that since the [...]
February 15, 2017
This is the third installment of our four-part blog series addressing the privacy related provisions in the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS). Part 1 privded an overview of the new regulations and Part [...]
February 9, 2017
This is the second installment of our four-part blog series addressing the privacy related provisions in the new Head Start Program Performance Standards (HSPPS). If you missed Part 1 of the series, check [...]
February 2, 2017
In the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007, Congress required the Office of Head Start to implement regulations to protect the confidentiality of personally identifiable information (“PII”). Nearly ten years [...]
January 30, 2017
On January 25, 2017, President Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) that stated that the Policy of the United States will be to ensure that any state or locality designated by the Secretary [...]
January 18, 2017
Under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) the Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is tasked with ensuring the proper expenditure and management of ACA-funded [...]