This testimony was presented before the Senate Subcommittee on Education and Early Childhood Development. Senior Fellow and Director of the Assessing the New Federalism project, Olivia Golden, discusses the Head Start program, federal monitoring, and the Government Accountability Office's recent report on a comprehensive approach to identifying and addressing risks. Golden offers perspective on effective strategies for building the strongest possible federal oversight role to support high-quality, fiscally accountable, programmatically successful, and well-managed Head Start programs..