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WASHINGTON -- Head Start, the federal pre-K education service for low-income families, has eliminated services for more than 57,000 children in the coming school year as a result of the federal budget reductions known as sequestration.
The cuts include a shorter school year and shorter school days, as well as laying off or reducing the pay for more than 18,000 employees nationwide. Others eliminated medical and dental screenings and bus routes.
All told, 57,265 children (nearly 6,000 of whom attend Early Head Start) saw their services eliminated, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by HHS. The state to take the biggest hit was California, where 5,611 Head Start kids were denied a spot in the program. In Texas, that number was 4,410. In New York it was 3,847. But underscoring just how widespread the effects of sequestration have been felt, even smaller states were impacted. In North Dakota, Head Start eliminated 194 slots in its program. In Rhode Island, it cut 450 positions. Even in far-flung Hawaii, 72 Head Starts slots were slashed.
Head Start is best known for providing preschool to low-income students, but it supplies many of its 960,000 children with two hot meals a day, transportation to and from school and basic medical care. When these services are eliminated, it also affects parents, who often must find difficult-to-afford day care services or take off days of work to tend to their children. HHS data says that Head Start will have administered 1,342,015 fewer days of service nationwide because of sequestration cuts.
Read more @: Head Start Cuts Services For More Than 57,000 Children Due To Sequestration
And yet it seems that the poor will be paying for the mess... [/FONT][/COLOR]
Just another example of where the governments real priorities are..
Of all the things they can cut they decide to do this..
Tim-
Yup, and Obama had the opportunity to avoid it but didn't so he could blame it on Republicans.
The article mentions the hardship on parents such as day care and loss of meal programs. But didn't these conditions all exist before Head Start? And then there is the evidence that by the 3rd or 4th grade any advancements made because of Head Start are no longer measurable. So if what we are complaining about is the federal government no longer providing day care and meals for kids who would still be at home with their parents were it not for this overblown day care subsidy, then the complaints start to look like whining about not having the nanny state to take care of their kids.
When my son was 4 we applied for Head Start. He was already reading and we felt being in school would be an advantage for him. He did not qualify because we made too much and were not minorities. He is now 12 in 7th grade and no longer shows an advantage over his classmates. We got him in to a private school at 4 years old. The original reason he was not accepted in to public school at that point was because he missed the age cuttoff date... by less than a week.
Yup, but 20 billion to Obama's green programs is a must! Add the 1.7 trillion on all the bailouts, QE I. II, and soon to be III, TARP, and whatever else they wasted away.
Tim-
And yet it seems that the poor will be paying for the mess... [/FONT][/COLOR]
Yup, but 20 billion to Obama's green programs is a must! Add the 1.7 trillion on all the bailouts, QE I. II, and soon to be III, TARP, and whatever else they wasted away.
Tim-
Whatever percentage was cut from this program due to sequestration is less than the 100% that should be cut from the program.
Wait....you have had your kid in private school, he apparently is average, did not get head start.....and this is an argument against head start?Yup, and Obama had the opportunity to avoid it but didn't so he could blame it on Republicans.
The article mentions the hardship on parents such as day care and loss of meal programs. But didn't these conditions all exist before Head Start? And then there is the evidence that by the 3rd or 4th grade any advancements made because of Head Start are no longer measurable. So if what we are complaining about is the federal government no longer providing day care and meals for kids who would still be at home with their parents were it not for this overblown day care subsidy, then the complaints start to look like whining about not having the nanny state to take care of their kids.
When my son was 4 we applied for Head Start. He was already reading and we felt being in school would be an advantage for him. He did not qualify because we made too much and were not minorities. He is now 12 in 7th grade and no longer shows an advantage over his classmates. We got him in to a private school at 4 years old. The original reason he was not accepted in to public school at that point was because he missed the age cuttoff date... by less than a week.
And yet it seems that the poor will be paying for the mess...
Read more @: Head Start Cuts Services For More Than 57,000 Children Due To Sequestration
And yet it seems that the poor will be paying for the mess... [/FONT][/COLOR]
So we shouldn't educate our young? Go back to the days when only the elite could afford an education?
So we shouldn't educate our young? Go back to the days when only the elite could afford an education?
Wait....you have had your kid in private school, he apparently is average, did not get head start.....and this is an argument against head start?
So we shouldn't educate our young? Go back to the days when only the elite could afford an education?
LOL.....whatever dude, you left a lot out...and you still have not made a point against head start.We could not get Head Start, we thought he was ready for school anyway and a private Christian school took him. He was there for a couple of years and then transfered to public school. His grade level went with him, so we got around the age requirement thru advancement, otherwise he would be in 6th grade now instead of 7th.
you don't have to remember....if you remember correctly.See, this is why I don't have to worry about what I talk about online. I don't have to remember what I told somebody because I tell the truth and the truth is always the same. And I don't know if there have been changes to unemployment and food stamp programs since then, it was 4 years ago if I remember correctly.
LOL....stop...please!!!How did we ever get by without all the freebies? I attended public schools....
Ha! LOL!The current crop of kids have all kinds of programs, and still the average High School student of today is ignorant.
This is a daycare program disguised as a schooling program...
Sure we should and everyone has the opportunity to get into school at about 5 years of age. Head Start wasn't about education, it was about day care with a thin veneer of "help the children" pasted on it.
Who said that? He didn't.
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