 by offering up to $500 a day to emergency substitute teachers with college degrees, but she said the organization cannot offer that premium forever. That effort will be buoyed by an influx of state dollars to the Head Start program after years of stagnant baseline funding. Providers have been dogged in recent years by diminishing state funding that leaves them poorly equipped to retain qualified staff. The federal government pays for 80% of Head Start costs, and the state used to contribute the remaining 20%,