CONGRESS CAN HELP ASSURE A BRIGHT FUTURE FOR HEAD START.(Editorial)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 21, 1998 ;     700+ words ...Head Start has grown from a light in the eyes of...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...

Value of Head Start questioned as reauthorization debate looms.(Nation)

The Washington Times;  July 27, 1998 ;     633 words ...Head Start, the federal government's largest preschool...research is inconclusive as to whether Head Start achieves its objectives of preparing...GAO says, studies need to show whether Head Start gives children educational, social, nutritional...

Head Start Hits 40

The Billings Gazette;  April 3, 2006 ;     683 words ...Head Start has been up and running in Billings for...she said. That's the whole point for Head Start, one of several social programs developed...six program spearheaded by Billings' Head Start, Inc. Executive Director Judy Bryngelson...

HEAD START

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  March 16, 2003 ;     506 words ...Head Start is a proven success. There is no reason...includes a plan to end direct funding for Head Start and send the money to the states in the...ate's universal pre- kindergarten program. Head Start, which serves 3- and 4-year-olds, and...

Battle ahead over Head Start overhaul; "It's not broken," critics of the...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  July 14, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Jean Hopfensperger; Staff Writer Head Start, created nearly 40 years ago during the...things, allow some states to combine Head Start funds with state preschool dollars in...14,000 Minnesota children enrolled in Head Start. The department wants Minnesota to become...

WISE INVESTMENT; CONGRESS SHOULD PUSH FOR FULL FUNDING OF HEAD...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  March 18, 2008 ;     449 words ...Head Start has given millions of disadvantaged preschoolers...000 low-income children are enrolled at Head Start centers today. Tens of thousands more...can benefit. But federal funding for Head Start has not kept up with inflation since...

POSSIBLE HEAD START CHANGES RAISE CONCERNS

Post-Tribune (IN);  May 1, 1995 ;     447 words ...CHART CHART - 30 years of Project Head Start (JUDY TREIBLE/Knight-Ridder Tribune...Indiana this year, the folks who run area Head Start classrooms think dumping the popular...back and forth over who should dispense Head Start funding. If the GOP-led Congress dismantles...

Bill may give states more control over Head Start program.(Knight Ridder...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 10, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Byline: David Goldstein WASHINGTON _ Head Start, the nation's premier preschool program...s social fabric onto the states, and Head Start is next in line. A Republican bill in...states decide which local programs get Head Start money. Currently, the federal government...

BUSH PLAN COULD DISMANTLE HEAD START GIVING STATES AUTHORITY OVER PROGRAM...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  June 24, 2003 ;     648 words ...Byline: Al Sheahen Local View HEAD Start is in danger. Of all the welfare programs in the United States, Head Start is perhaps the most successful and...budget, has proposed radical changes. Head Start is a program for low-income families...

Huge salary spurs call for probe; Head Start official in Texas earns...

The Washington Times;  October 9, 2003 ;     581 words ......Wetzstein, THE WASHINGTON TIMES News that a Head Start director in Texas was paid $205,640 a...leaders to ask for a federal review of Head Start finances nationwide. Is the San Antonio...other cases around the country where Head Start funds are being abused? Republican Reps...

Questions: Head start reauthorization challenged

The Crisis;  September 1, 2003 ;     543 words ...The federal Head Start program was created in 1965 to help...is currently run by local entities. Head Start advocates oppose the proposal, called...poverty. Ron Herndon, director of Albina Head Start, a comprehensive early childhood program...

Local authority important to Abilene, Kan., Head Start.(Kansas)

Nation's Cities Weekly;  May 2, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Bush has proposed a slight increase in Head Start spending for 2006 to fund a pilot program...layers of government that are added to Head Start, the less funding there will be that...Zutavern, who has served on his local Head Start Policy Council. Frankly, we work with...

As Politicians Expand Head Start, Experts Question Worth, Efficiency

The Washington Post;  February 19, 1993 ;     683 words ...Extolled by Republicans and Democrats alike, Head Start is America's favorite program for preschoolers...double to $6 billion the funding for Head Start - essentially making it an entitlement...worth. Others, including the founder of Head Start, warn that it may be expanded too fast...

DON'T MESS WITH SUCCESS; THERE IS NO NEED FOR ADMINISTRATION'S "REFORMS'...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  June 19, 2003 ;     440 words ...Head Start works. It's as simple as that. Children in Head Start programs achieve more when they get to school. More...Workforce approved legislation that would begin to turn Head Start over to the states. In the long term, the legislation...

House Head Start Reauthorization Vote Lauded by National Head Start...

U.S. Newswire;  May 3, 2007 ;     689 words ......EDITORS Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf for National Head Start Association, +1- 703-276-3265 or aaaron...PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Head Start Association, the national voice of Head Start grantees, today applauded the U.S. House...