Under scrutiny, some Head Start programs in limbo, By Claudio Sanchez, April 3, 2012, National Public Radio: “The Obama administration is calling for major changes in Head Start, the 46-year-old early childhood education program that helped launch President Johnson’s War on Poverty. President Obama says too many children today aren’t learning, and too many education programs are mismanaged. ‘We’re not just going to put money into programs that don’t work,’ the president announced late last year. ‘We will take money and put it into programs that do.’ To that end, the administration has released a list of 132 Head Start programs in 40 states it has rated ‘deficient.’ Those programs will now have to compete for federal funding…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty