Reps. Edwards & Cleaver: The Improving Head Start Act

Head Start has been the premiere early education program in this country for more than 40 years, serving more than 20 million children and families in that time. Its goal is to help children from very low-income families reach kindergarten ready to succeed. Head Start is a critical part of this country's effort to combat the effects of poverty and ensure all of our children have the opportunity and skills they need to thrive. The Improving Head Start Act will improve Head Start's workforce quality, strengthen school readiness, boost coordination, expand access to up to 10,000 more children, allow programs to convert portions of their grant for use for Early Head Start, and increase accountabily. Reps. Chet Edwards & Emanuel Cleaver respond to a Republican motion to recommit with instructions to allow faith-based Head Start providers to discriminate in hiring on the basis of religion using federal dollars.

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I love the Head Start Program. It helps the underprivilaged children and familiies keep up with the privllaged children and families. Not everyone has had the same opportunities in life. Head Start is here for those people.

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Funding Private Schools with the taxpayer's money is giving up on public schools. Tax dollars should go to public goods and not elitist school systems that that keep their own idealogy in place.

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