Trump Budget Proposal Would Fully Eliminate Head Start
12th April 2025
USA Today, a Voice of the Crust.
They say that like it was a bad thing.
Every piece of evidence regarding Head Start indicates that it spends money and doesn’t do any good. If sixty years of failure doesn’t justify ending a program, what would? The Brookings Institution (a Voice of the Crust) reports:
In 2005, the first report about the Head Start Impact Study found that one year of Head Start improved cognitive skills, but the size of the effects was small. While this first report affirmed Head Start’s impact on school readiness, the final HHS report published in 2010 showed that by the end of first grade, the effects mostly faded out. According to the 2012 HHS report on third grade follow-up, by the end of primary school there was no longer a discernible impact of Head Start. Due in part to these reports, some have concluded that while Head Start has some initial impact on kindergarten readiness, the fadeout in impact over early elementary school qualifies attempts to invest more in early childhood education.
Let us get away from this Deep State notion that every problem can be solved with a Federal handout administered by a Federal bureaucracy.