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Article: NHSA Warns That 14,000 Head Start Child Slot Cut Proposed by Bush Administration Is New White House Effort to 'Dismantle' Head Start

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March 13, 2008
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Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf, +1-703-276-3265, aaaron@hastingsgroup.com, for the National Head Start Association

After Head-On Assault Failed in 2003-2006, White House Shifts to Slow Motion Erasure Strategy; Proposed Elimination of 14,000 Children Served Follows FY 2008 Budget Cut Insisted On by White House.

WASHINGTON, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Head Start officials from across the United States warned today that the Bush White House is once again trying to dismantle the Head Start program, after it was rebuffed during 2003-2006 in its controversial first attempt to do so.

The early-childhood education experts pointed to a series of recent developments -- ...

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