Forum Session
| Date: | MAY 2, 2003 |
| Title: | Reauthorizing Head Start: The Future Federal Role in Preschool Programs for the Poor |
| Manager: | Jane Koppelman, Consultant |
| Summary: | This Forum session examined the many issues involved in President Bush’s proposal to allow states to integrate Head Start with state preschool and other child care monies to create a more uniform, state-run, early childhood system with a single goal—school achievement. A description of and rationale for the administration’s early childhood proposal was presented and discussed, pro and con. Also described was Georgia’s universal prekindergarten program, with a focus on the program’s standards, funding levels, and degree of integration with Head Start and other government-funded child care programs, as well as the potential impact of the administration’s proposal on the state’s early childhood system. Representatives from a local Head Start program and from another state offered their comments as well. |
| Speakers: | Ron Haskins, PhD, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution; Edward Zigler, PhD, Founder and Director, Yale Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University; Marsha Moore, Acting Director, Georgia Office of School Readiness. Comments from: |
| Related Materials: |
More information available in the accompanying publication, Issue Brief No. 789. |
