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Article: POSSIBLE HEAD START CHANGES RAISE CONCERNS

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CHART CHART - 30 years of Project Head Start (JUDY TREIBLE/Knight-Ridder Tribune)

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As it marks its 30th anniversary in Northwest Indiana this year, the folks who run area Head Start classrooms think dumping the popular federal program into state hands is a bad idea. They are watching closely as lawmakers in Washington volley back and forth over who should dispense Head Start funding. If the GOP-led Congress dismantles the federal funding pipeline, local officials say it will dilute services provided to low-income families.

Locally, Head Start programs have been administered since 1965 by the Lake County Economic ...

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