Abstract
Parent Involvement is a vital component to the success of children academically but also the success of schools and communities. Head Start has the prestige of being the first program to value the importance of parent involvement. Parent involvement has many sub-categories that must be analyzed in order to document the success of the involvement of parents. In this study, the focus is how parent's participation in a shared-decision/governance partnership is empowering for parents and does the participation of parents produced outcomes that match the expectations of the Head Start philosophy. The results of this study suggest that parents who participated in their Head Start program's Policy Committee had not met the standards required from the Head Start program.