Transcript: HOUSE APPROVES CASTLE BILL TO IMPROVE HEAD START EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAM

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September 22, 2005
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Capitol Hill Press Releases
09-22-2005
For Immediate Release House Approves Castle Bill to Improve Head Start
Early Childhood Program Contact: Alexa Marrero (202) 225-4527 September
22, 2005 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved
a bill to introduce greater competition into the federal Head Start early
childhood program and use it to strengthen school readiness, increase the
role of states and local communities in Head Start, and protect children
and taxpayers against the abuse and mismanagement of federal Head Start
funds. The bill, the School Readiness Act (H.R. 2123), also restores hiring
protections that had been stripped from faith-based organizations choosing
to ...

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