Despite all of this, I would not be surprised if she still wins next week’s special election.
Janice Hahn: Sticking up for the “little guy” while the little guy gets mugged, robbed and raped.
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$7 billion dollars later and Time Magazine gets the memo that Head Start does not work.
“It is now 45 years later. We spend more than $7 billion providing Head Start to nearly 1 million children each year. And finally there is indisputable evidence about the program’s effectiveness, provided by the Department of Health and Human Services: Head Start simply does not work.
According to the Head Start Impact Study, which was quite comprehensive, the positive effects of the program were minimal and vanished by the end of first grade. Head Start graduates performed about the same as students of similar income and social status who were not part of the program. These results were so shocking that the HHS team sat on them for several years, according to Russ Whitehurst of the Brookings Institution, who said, ‘I guess they were trying to rerun the data to see if they could come up with anything positive. They couldn’t.’”
