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Head Start reform
Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Posted on 06/17/2003 11:28:59 PM PDT by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:58 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The same folks that led the unsuccessful opposition to welfare reform in 1996 are now targeting Republican efforts to reform Head Start, the federal government's $6.8 billion preschool program for the poor. When President Clinton finally signed the Republican-controlled Congress' historic welfare-reform legislation, Children's Defense Fund (CDF) President Marian Wright Edelman harshly denounced Mr. Clinton.


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TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cdf; earlychild; edelman; education; greatsociety; headstart; hhs; lbj; nclb; reform; welfarereform
Wednesday, June 18, 2003

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