Danbury Head Start Staff Accepted Unqualified Kids: Report

DANBURY, CT — An employee in Danbury’s Head Start program has resigned and three other staff members are being asked to leave for allowing unqualified children into the program, the News-Times is reporting.

The names of the employee who has quit, and those being asked to step down, have not been released.

The action comes as a result of an audit the organization commissioned in the wake of the arrest of Monica Bevilacqua, former director of Danbury Head Start and former treasurer of a Brookfield parent-teacher organization who was arrested in December after police said she embezzled $12,700 from the organization. She has since accepted a deal that would see the five felony charges against her dropped in exchange for completing a probation program.

Head Start is a Federal program designed to advance the school readiness of low-income children by providing comprehensive early childhood care and education, as well as family development services that include health, education, social services, and parent-community involvement.

For more, see the News-Times.