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Obama will mandate Head Start competition
- 11-08-2011
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By David Jackson and Richard Wolf/USA Today
Low-performing Head Start programs for preschool children will be required to compete for federal funds under a rule President Obama plans to announce outside Philadelphia today. Administration officials told USA TODAY Obama is acting on his own because Republicans in Congress are obstructing on education policy, including efforts to reduce Head Start funding. They are billing it as part of Obama's "We Can't Wait" campaign to enact policies by executive action. In this case, the rulemaking process was begun more than a year ago by the Department of Health and Human Services under terms of a 2007 law. Most Republicans supported that legislation; it passed the Senate unanimously and the House by a vote of 381-36. (more...)
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