Preschoolers enjoy a variety of break activities at a Head Start Program in Hillsboro, Ore., Thursday August 16, 2007.
Associated Press
Head Start was established in 1965, and it currently spends about $8 billion a year on early childhood development services to low-income children and their families, in addition to subsidy programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and TANF. There is also little evidence that the programs generate much of a return for the large taxpayer resources invested in them.
The benefits of Head Start at age 4 are largely absent by first grade. For 3-year-olds there are few sustained benefits. It is simply another waste to taxpayers. The recent study done by the government shows no sustained benefit. The entire study can be read at: www.acf.hhs.gov. Head Start should be banned and save taxpayers $8 billon a year.
Lori B. Koons
Farmington
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I read the Head Start study findings associated with the link provided in this letter. The conclusions of the study aren't even remotely as negative as the letter would have you believe, and in fact the study concludes that Head Start has an overall More..
So, Lori B Koons of Farmington,Ut.
You, are against educating children that are
not so well off as your children.
If we are going to ban anything, let's ban the special taxpayer funded benefits that we give to the very rich, which were highlighted in Sen. Coburn's (R-OK) report, "Subsidies for the Rich and Famous." As reported in the NYT: "The More..