Bringing back Head Start


	Bringing back Head Start

Lara Nieberding

1-9-2008 4:32 PM

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pta, head start, education, early childhood education, law

Lara Nieberding says:

I had a foster child in a head start program over ten years ago. It was one of the best programs.

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<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Dedicates $2 million in fiscal year 2008 to Head Start agencies for local training and improvement efforts.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Sets a goal that half of all Head Start teachers and curriculum specialists earn a bachelor's degree within six years.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Expands Early Head Start by $83 billion to serve additional low-income infants and toddlers.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Establishes a new system for the designation of Head Start grants and provides for an open competition among agencies with deficient record of non-compliance within Head Start.</LI>
<li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Eliminates the National Reporting System, a controversial test given to all 4- and 5-year-old Head Start students.</LI></UL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BD4E070E-CFDB-4BEC-BAD6-5A7376644D6D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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