Head Start Reauthorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Children, Family, Drugs and Alcoholism of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, Second Session ... March 1, 1990U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 155 pages |
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Page 1 - Dirksen Senate Office Building, Senator Christopher J. Dodd (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Dodd, Pell, and Wellstone.
Page 130 - ... Integrated approach to service delivery. In an ideal world perhaps, we could take programs like Head Start, aimed at preschool children, the Follow Through program which barely survives as a demonstration program aimed at picking up where Head Start leaves off, the Even Start program which provides literacy and training to parents with their children ages 1 through 7, and the Chapter 1 program in the early years of elementary school, and integrate them into a single, comprehensive strategy for...
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Page 81 - Without specific initiatives to improve salaries, children who most need the the comprehensive, high-quality preschool experience that Head Start can provide will suffer. The people who work for Head Start have never done so because of the high wages, but they must be paid living wages. Because salaries are such a critical issue in Head Start today, we urge you to include a "set-aside
Page 59 - Let me conclude by emphasizing that investment in education is government at its best and most needed... when it's done right. When it's done right... investing early in education is the best investment of all. We can no longer tolerate...
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