Head Start Teachers Get Jump Start on Degrees Via Distance Learning From: University of Cincinnati Currents Date: February 25, 2000 Photo by: Lisa Ventre UC's Arlitt Child and Family Research and Education Center has provided a Head Start program since 1965. Children in the federally funded program are included in classes with children in the tuition preschool program. Now three colleges within UC are teaming with a nonprofit company and a satellite broadcasting service to help 30,000 Head Start teachers across the nation meet new educational requirements. Among the children enrolled at Arlitt this quarter are Manasi Bhatia, left, and Drew O'Sullivan, who joined forces on a puzzle.