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Transcript: HEAD START PROGRAM REAUTHORIZATION: HELGA LEMKE
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- Congressional Testimony
- Article date:
- June 3, 2003
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Statement of Helga Lemke Executive Director, Community Action Partnership
of Sonoma County Committee on House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee
on Education Reform June 3, 2003 Good morning Chairman Castle, Ranking
Member Woolsey, and Members of the Committee. Thank you for offering
me
the opportunity to speak today on behalf of Head Start. I would like
to
begin my testimony with a story. A few months ago Cori, a Head Start
employee,
started an agency training session by describing her experience with
Head
Start. She began by saying that she first came to Head Start at a
low point
in her life. She was a single parent, without a support system, and
with
very little ...