Head Start…”has failed to improve academic outcomes for the children it was designed to help”
April 21, 2013
The President has called for universal preschool claiming it will solve many of society’s ills. However, the Heritage Foundation has analyzed the Federal Department of Health and Human Service’s own study. The Congressionally mandated study of the Federal Head Start Program has found the program woefully wanting. The Heritage foundation concludes:
“…….HHS has released definitive evidence that the federal government’s 48-year experiment with Head Start has failed children and left taxpayers a tab of more than $180 billion. In the interest of children and taxpayers, it’s time for this nearly half-century experiment to come to an end. …..”
Read the commentary by the Heritage Foundation.
The President has called for universal preschool claiming it will solve many of society’s ills. However, the Heritage Foundation has analyzed the Federal Department of Health and Human Service’s own study. The Congressionally mandated study of the Federal Head Start Program has found the program woefully wanting. The Heritage foundation concludes:
“…….HHS has released definitive evidence that the federal government’s 48-year experiment with Head Start has failed children and left taxpayers a tab of more than $180 billion. In the interest of children and taxpayers, it’s time for this nearly half-century experiment to come to an end. …..”
Read the commentary by the Heritage Foundation.