Kathleen McCartney, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is expressing concerns about the potential cuts to the national school readiness program Head Start, considered, in her words, “one of the lasting legacies of President Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty.”
In an essay for CNN.com, McCartney notes that “early childhood education is the single best investment we can make for our children,” and points out that potential U.S. House cuts of up to $22.4 percent in Head Start and Early Head Start funding would be “penny wise and pound foolish.”
President Obama has defended Head Start and said he’ll fight cuts, but he’s up against some serious Republican opposition, along with those who argue that the program is ineffective.
