{"id":262700,"date":"2010-02-01T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f95\/head-start-failing-white-house-proposes-9-3-billion-new-preschool-program-38882\/"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:01:36","slug":"with-head-start-failing-white-house-proposes-9-3-billion-for-new-preschool-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262700","title":{"rendered":"With Head Start Failing, White House Proposes $9.3 billion for New Preschool Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 02.01.10 01:00 PM posted by Dan Lips<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/preschool-houston100201.jpg&quot;&gt;<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/preschool-houston100201.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;While the federal government already spends as least $25 billion on the existing 69 preschool and child care programs, the Obama administration is calling for #70\u0097proposing $9.3 billion for a new \u0093Early Learning Challenge Grant\u0094.  As &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/wm2643.cfm&quot;&gt;we wrote last year, the Early Learning Challenge Grant fund would push states to spend more on preschool programs, when evidence is mounting that preschool programs aren\u0092t delivering the benefits their proponents promise.&lt;spanid=&quot;more-25263&quot;&gt;&lt;\/span&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Given the recent national evaluation showing that the nation\u0092s &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/bg2363.cfm&quot;&gt;45 year and $167 billion experiment with Head Start has been a failure, shouldn\u0092t the Obama administration be living up to their programs of \u0093funding what works\u0094 by reforming rather than expanding federal spending on preschool?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/01\/with-head-start-failing-white-house-proposes-9-3-billion-for-new-preschool-program\/\" >http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/2010\/02\/01\/&#8230;chool-program\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 02.01.10 01:00 PM posted by Dan Lips &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/blog.heritage.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/preschool-houston100201.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;While the federal government already spends as least $25 billion on the existing 69 preschool and child care programs, the Obama administration is calling for #70\u0097proposing $9.3 billion for a new \u0093Early Learning Challenge Grant\u0094. As &lt;ahref=&quot;http:\/\/www.heritage.org\/Research\/Education\/wm2643.cfm&quot;&gt;we wrote last year, the Early Learning Challenge Grant fund would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}