The GAO wants Head Start to enhance its oversight standards and fiscal accountability. But if it can’t prove its results are worth $12.3 billion, it may be time to make some cuts — or perhaps simply ...
Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year.
It’s been 14 years since flooding submerged pastures and hay fields around Lake Manitoba and other parts of western Manitoba, but beef producers can still count their cost from the disaster.