HEADSTART CHILD DEVELOPMENT ACT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

EMPLOYMENT, MANPOWER, AND POVERTY

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 2060

TO PROVIDE FOR AN EXPANDED HEADSTART CHILD
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

AUGUST 4, 5, AND 6, 1969

PART 1

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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1970

COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND PUBLIC WELFARE

RALPH YARBOROUGH, Texas, Chairman

ROBERT O. HARRIS, Staff Director

JOHN S. FORSYTHE, General Counsel

ROY H. MILLENSON, Minority Staff Director

EUGENE MITTELMAN, Minority Counsel

SUBCOMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT, MANPOWER, AND POVERTY

GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin, Chairman

WILLIAM R. BECHTEL, Professional Staff Member

JOHN K. SCALES, Minority Counsel to Subcommittee

CONTENTS

S. 2060__.

Departmental reports:

Department of Agriculture..

Office of Economic Opportunity, Executive Office of the President___

Comptroller General of the United States.

Bureau of the Budget---

MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1969

Mendelsohn, Dr. Robert S., associate professor and director, Division of

Community Pediatrics, University of Illinois College of Medicine,

Chicago, Iй

Branche, Mrs. Christine, directing supervisor, Division of Early Childhood,

Cleveland Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio.

Geiger, Dr. H. Jack, professor and chairman, Department of Preventive

Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., and

project director, Tufts-Delta Health Center, Bolivar County, Miss_-

TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1969

Godbouldt, Mrs. Clara, chairman, Headstart Parents Advisory Council,

Economic and Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles - -

Ortega, Mrs. Connie, Headstart Parents Advisory Council, Economic and

Youth Opportunities Agency of Greater Los Angeles---

Bloom, Dr. Benjamin, professor of education, University of Chicago_-

Schaefer, Dr. Earl S., research psychologist, Center for Studies of Child and

Family Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Health

Services and Mental Health Administration, Department of Health,

Education, and Welfare....

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1969

Farmer, Hon. James, Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department

of Health, Education, and Welfare; accompanied by Jule Sugarman,

Acting Chief of the Children's Bureau and Acting Director, Office of

Child Development, and Creed C. Black, Assistant Secretary for Legis-

lation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare-----

Prouty, Hon. Winston L., a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont.

Cooke, Dr. Robert E., professor of pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, Md., former Chairman, Planning Commission on Project

Headstart; accompanied by Mrs. Mary Robinson, director, Martin

Luther King, Jr., Parent and Child Center, Baltimore, Md.--

Zigler, Dr. Edward, Department of Psychology, Child Development Pro-

grams, Yale University..

STATEMENTS

Bloom, Dr. Benjamin, professor of education, University of Chicago.

Branche, Mrs. Christine, directing supervisor, Division of Early Childhood,

Cleveland Board of Education, Cleveland, Ohio_

Cooke, Dr. Robert E., professor of pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University,

Baltimore, Md., former Chairman, Planning Commission on Project

Headstart; accompanied by Mrs. Mary Robinson, director, Martin

Luther King, Jr., Parent and Child Center, Baltimore, Md...

Farmer, Hon. James, Assistant Secretary for Administration, Department

of Health, Education, and Welfare; accompanied by Jule Sugarman,

Acting Chief of the Children's Bureau and Acting Director, Office of

Child Development, and Creed C. Black, Assistant Secretary for Legis-
lation, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare__

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