But many of the country's leading education experts, and Head Start providers and teachers, say the test could harm the children as well as Head Start, which is widely regarded as one of the nation's most successful antipoverty programs.
Respiratory infections are commonly reported among displaced children, as well as scabies and head lice.
Child protection experts are assessing whether the children have been separated from their families and the number of children acting as head of households, so their specific needs can be addressed.
Yet, many of these prior studies used samples from the United States, where ECEC can be exorbitantly expensive for all but the poorest children (exceptions include federal- and state-subsidized ECEC for low-income children such as Head Start, and a few states provide free universal preschool, for example, Oklahoma's universal preschool program; Gormley and Gayer 2005).
Headteacher John Tomsett is tracking mental health referral rates in 70 schools and has found a steady rise in referrals for primary children as they head towards testing.
When the alternation time arrives there is a mad rush of children as they head for their friends' apartments across the road.
But they also complain that they are forced to compete with street vendors who gather outside school gates to sell inexpensive junk food to children as they head home.
While all parents worry about the safety of their young adult children as they head off to college, there are also financial risks that parents should consider.
She finds joy and value in being creative in every aspect of her life: from being imaginative with children as the Head of Girls of a summer camp to choreographing for the Dancing Devils to writing songs, poems, and short fiction.
In the Philippines, for example, substitute producers pitch the 'brain-building blocks' of their powdered milk for infants, which has considerable tug on the emotions of women who want to give their children as many head starts in life as possible.
