Billion Broken Promises: Experts Warn 'Crippling Crisis' Looms for Head Start Due to Cut in Appropriations, Hundreds of New Unfunded Requirements

U.S. Newswire, January, 2008

To: POLITICAL EDITORS

Contact: Ailis Aaron Wolf, 1-703-276-3265, aaaron@hastingsgroup.com, for Head Start

White House, Congress Criticized for Head Start Cut in Face of $20 Billion in Appropriations Earmarks; $1 Billion Shortfall in Funding Seen Since 2002, $360 Million Catch Up Sought in Each of Next Five Years

WASHINGTON,Jan. 24/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --The White House and Congress put Head Start -- the nations first and most successful comprehensive early-childhood education program -- on a path to crisis in December 2007 after first reauthorizing the program with hundreds of costly new requirements and then failing to appropriate the funds needed to pay for current program operations, much less the expensive new rules and regulations. Funding for Head...

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