That gives Lidow a good head start.
In her recent confirmation hearings, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos painted a bleak picture of education policy: less funding, more privatization, less emphasis on effective interventions like Head Start.
Xylitol-based caries preventive programs may be more effective in structured daycare centers, Head Start, or at school where the environment offers the best opportunity to achieve compliance.
An additional $66 million would come from ending the education program Even Start, which Congress has protected against past assaults; the administration will argue that other childhood education programs like Head Start are more effective.
US experiences showed that Head Start was an extremely effective approach when conducted under strongly controlled and costly conditions.
Mr. Gramm, a Republican who is retiring after 25 years in Congress, said on Wednesday that he would resign effective Nov. 30 to give Mr. Cornyn a head start in the Senate.
House Republican leaders are proposing draconian budget cuts in cost effective nutrition programs like WIC and education programs like Head Start millions of poor children desperately need.
The federal Early Head Start program for infants and toddlers is effective when it is well implemented — in part because it succeeds in getting parents more involved with their children.
Seeing these outcomes, early childhood researchers began in the 1990s to experiment with ways to make Head Start and other early childhood approaches more effective.
