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Article: DON'T MESS WITH SUCCESS; THERE IS NO NEED FOR ADMINISTRATION'S "REFORMS' OF HEAD START.(Editorial)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2003
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Head Start works. It's as simple as that. Children in Head Start programs achieve more when they get to school. More of them stay in school to graduate from high school than other disadvantaged children. Their parents have opportunities to become more self-sufficient. Helping nearly 1 million children every year, it simply is one of the most successful federal programs ever launched in this country.
Why, then, is the Bush administration intent on messing with it?
Last week, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce approved legislation that would begin to turn Head Start over to the states. In the long term, the legislation could gut Head Start. The ...