(a) A minimum of 50 percent of the total state-funded enrollment in Head Start programs, including in licensed child care programs, throughout the state must be provided in full-day services.
(b) Head Start programs may provide full-day services as part of their own program model or through agreements with full-day licensed child care programs. If licensed child care programs do not exist in a geographic area, choose not to participate, cannot meet the federal Head Start performance standards after sufficient opportunity, or a Head Start program is unable to establish the full-day services as a part of their own program model, the Head Start program may request exemption from the commissioner.