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Tempest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-03 01:29 PM
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Groups reject provision in Senate Head Start bill
Groups reject provision in Senate Head Start bill

http://govexec.com/dailyfed/1003/103103sz1.htm

A diverse group of antipoverty, religious and liberal groups this week condemned a provision in the Senate version of legislation to reauthorize the 38-year-old Head Start program and urged senators to amend the bill when it comes up for a vote.

In a statement issued on Oct. 30, Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Children's Defense Fund, a liberal advocacy group in Washington, said that a provision in the Senate bill requiring the academic testing of Head Start's preschool-age pupils was developmentally inappropriate. Forty organizations signed onto Edelman's statement, including the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, the Episcopal Church USA, and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.

Head Start, a program run by the Administration for Children and Families at the Health and Human Services Department, provides a range of academic, medical and developmental services to about 900,000 low-income children under the age of five.

"The Senate should reject proposals that establish a set of outcomes for children that are not informed by research or science," Edelman said. "They should continue to oppose any inappropriate testing of young children and make sure that such test results are not used to determine program funding."

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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-03 02:53 PM
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1. Republican compassion ~ Your four year old doesn't know value of pi
kick em out.
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Maddy McCall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-03-03 04:35 PM
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2. This runs counter to everything Head Start was created to be!
I guess now, instead of labeling kids losers in kindergarten, the new program will begin to label in preschool. All in the name of No Child Left Behind, no doubt.

What it is going to result in is the privitization of Head Start. LBJ would truly roll in his grave.
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