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Article: CONGRESS CAN HELP ASSURE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR HEAD START.(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 21, 1998
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Head Start has grown from a light in the eyes of anti-poverty warriors of the 1960s into a $4 billion program serving 800,000 poor preschool children nationwide. It's likely to keep right on growing once Congress takes a fresh look at it this spring, and that's good.
What would be even better would be if the federal government pledged to do what long ago should have been done: make the program universal and of universally high quality.
Seattle will especially be hearing about Head Start this week as more than 6,000 teachers, administrators and parents arrive for the National Head Start Association's annual meeting. In the midst of the training sessions ...