Volusia County may drop Head Start and ask a private nonprofit agency to take over the program for low-income preschoolers. It doesn't make sense for the county to run the program, which serves about 500 children ages 3 and 4 in Volusia, said County Council Vice Chairwoman Ann McFall.
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McFall said she has been trying to get the school system or a nonprofit organization to take over the program since she served on the School Board in the 1980s. She plans to try again at a special council meeting today. McFall stressed that she isn't trying to destroy the program. Rather, she said, she would like to turn the program over to the Child Care Resource Network, which partners with the county to operate the program. Jo Sheppard, executive director of the Child Care Resource Network, said that agency would be willing to take over the program.