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Head Start or False Start?
Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS
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Publication: The world & I online
Issue Date: 2/1/2004
Size: 123 Words, 841 Characters

The federal Head Start preschool program was begun to address the problem of the academic achievement gap...

. . .


...benefits fade away after a few grades.

Controversial new legislation now in Congress would not only reauthorize the program but would:

- Allow faith-based organizations that run Head Start schools to hire teachers of their own religion.

- Start a pilot program that would allow eight states to coordinate their Head Start programs with state-based early childhood education programs.





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