June 25, 2011

Detroit\'s Head Start program in peril

The Detroit agency being investigated by the FBI following Free Press reports of misspending and mismanagement is placing the city\'s preschool Head Start program at risk by failing to pay rent to classroom providers and allowing federal violations to persist. Head Start providers worry that they may have to shut down their programs that serve about 7,000 low-income children in Detroit. \"If the money isn\'t there, then the organization can\'t function, which means Head Start will stop serving kids,\" said Janet Windemuth, a Head Start volunteer and Wayne State University instructor who specializes in urban education of early childhood. \"We have no idea what\'s going on with the city.\"

http://www.freep.com/article/20110625/NEWS01/106250430/Detroit-s-Head-Start-program-peril
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