Like other Early Head Start Centres across the country, the Columbia University Centre offers parent-child group learning sessions as well as home visits from an early childhood specialist, immunization support, health screenings and adult literacy classes, among other services.
Obama is proposing that federal-state partnerships pay for preschool expansion, and competitive federal grants pay for an expansion of Early Head Start and other child care programs that serve infants and toddlers.
All around us, other heads started popping up.
"I've had a two-headed king snake named Laverne and Shirley and when I feed them a pinky mouse, I have to put a playing card between them because, otherwise, they'll both see the mouse and one head will start eating it and the other head will start eating the head eating the snake".
As a result, just under half of middle-income children attend publicly-subsidized pre-K other than Head Start -- usually financed through individual states or school districts.
The idea of the "word gap" quickly became a buzzword, serving as the rationale for numerous programs such as Reach Out and Read and certain others within Head Start in an attempt to assist poor families in "closing" this gap.
Other programs like Head Start, for early education, would have roughly the same cut as previously planned.
(Adding in other programmes, including Head Start, brings public enrolment to 42%.) Cuts, though, are looming, thanks to the sequester.The president has been short on specifics.
