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Bush Signs Head Start Preschool Bill
AP via SFGate ^
| 12/12/7
Posted on 12/12/2007 12:30:04 PM PST by SmithL
WASHINGTON, (AP) -- President Bush on Wednesday signed into law a five-year renewal of Head Start, the federal preschool program for poor children.
The latest update to Head Start, which began in 1965, aims to open the program to more children and ensure that teachers are better-qualified. Congress overwhelmingly approved the legislation last month, and Bush signed it despite misgivings about aspects of the bill.
Bush praised the bill's push to increase competition among Head Start providers, raise learning standards and coordinate early childhood education.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atriskstudents; billsigning; bush; educationfunding; headstart; itsforthechildren; poverty; preschool; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:30:06 PM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
We all knew THIS would happen.
2
posted on
12/12/2007 12:31:54 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Financing James Marsden's kid's college fund, 1 ticket, 1 DVD at a time.)
To: SmithL
Stupid. Waste of money. No evidence of effectiveness.
3
posted on
12/12/2007 12:33:45 PM PST
by
Leisler
(RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:33:56 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: SmithL
Bush signs head?
Start preschool, Bill?
That headline doesn't make a lick of sense.
5
posted on
12/12/2007 12:34:14 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden have the same position on global warming, for the exact same reason.)
To: SmithL
Cradle to grave government care - no end in sight.
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:34:43 PM PST
by
Reagan79
(Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
To: Leisler
Stupid. Waste of money. No evidence of effectiveness.
There's just as much evidence that the Kyoto Protocols will stop Global Warming. Maybe Bush should get a Nobel Peace Prize.
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:35:22 PM PST
by
Question Liberal Authority
(Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden have the same position on global warming, for the exact same reason.)
To: SmithL
How is it a head start to place a ball and chain on all those kids parents and their employers? Why not just nail their foot to the floor. That would be a head start too...
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:35:22 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(California, where the death penalty is reserved for wholesome values. SB 777)
To: Leisler
A what start program?
9
posted on
12/12/2007 12:35:58 PM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: SmithL
President Bush on Wednesday signed into law a five-year renewal of Head Start, the federal preschool program for poor children. Is this code for saying, we are forcing tax payers to take care of illegal aliens and their anchor children?
10
posted on
12/12/2007 12:36:14 PM PST
by
dragnet2
To: netmilsmom
The shriveled skull of LBJ is cracking from a smile at this news.
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:36:42 PM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: SmithL
President Bush on Wednesday signed into law a five-year renewal of Head Start, the federal preschool program for poor childrenMore like the federal babysitting/daycare program.
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:38:52 PM PST
by
Elyse
(I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
To: Leisler
I worked with head-start for a little bit as a lifeguard in Mississippi. It was a nightmare - my experience led me to believe it was just government babysitting for brats. The parents took little interest in the lives of their kids - in a lot of cases.
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:40:21 PM PST
by
Reagan79
(Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys)
To: Dixie Yooper
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posted on
12/12/2007 12:44:44 PM PST
by
netmilsmom
(Financing James Marsden's kid's college fund, 1 ticket, 1 DVD at a time.)
To: SmithL
Our most conservative president ever strikes again.
To: SmithL
Just a baby sitter for welfare moms so they can get high and go make more welfare babies. Stupid is as stupid does.
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posted on
12/12/2007 1:12:10 PM PST
by
wolfcreek
(The Status Quo Sucks!)
To: SmithL
As kooky as Paul is - he wouldn’t sign bills like this one.
Bush the “Conservative” has no problem with it.
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Our most conservative president ever strikes again. Yeah, the mostest!
I'm eagerly awaiting January 2009. I just wish we could get a real conservative to replace him.
18
posted on
12/12/2007 1:48:33 PM PST
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: SmithL
George W. Bush loves federal spending —— big government Republicanism and social engineering.
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posted on
12/12/2007 1:50:10 PM PST
by
Reagan Man
(FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
To: dragnet2
>>Is this code for saying, we are forcing tax payers to take care of illegal aliens and their anchor children?<<
Part and parcel with welfare, dontchaknow?
Had a neighbor - a 20 year old girl with two children, father was a boyfriend who didn’t work. She didn’t work. Both stayed home, all day, sat on the porch and smoked. She actually started taking them to head start once they were old enough. So she could get a job? No! So she could look for a job? No! So she could go back to school? No!
So she could sit on the porch, continue to smoke, and NOT scream at the kids.
They were apparently crampin’ her style.
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posted on
12/12/2007 1:53:29 PM PST
by
ItsOurTimeNow
(Rock of Ages, cleft for me - let me hide myself in Thee.)
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