OAKLAND — Parents and educators in Oakland are expressing deep concern over the future of the city’s Head Start program following the sudden dismissal of its two top leaders.
The federally funded early education initiative, which has served low-income and homeless families in Oakland for over five decades, is now facing what supporters fear could be an existential crisis.
The City of Oakland recently terminated Head Start Director Diveena Cooppan and Assistant to the Director Martina Bouey without explanation, a move that supporters said threatens the stability of the 54-year-old program…