Monday, August 19, 2013

republicans are not looking out for your kids


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/19/head-start-cuts-services_n_3779210.html

WASHINGTON -- Head Start, the federal pre-K education service for low-income families, has eliminated services for more than 57,000 children in the coming school year as a result of the federal budget reductions known as sequestration.
The cuts include a shorter school year and shorter school days, as well as laying off or reducing the pay for more than 18,000 employees nationwide. Others eliminated medical and dental screenings and bus routes.
now keep in mind the republicans can put a halt to this at anytime, but i think they want the worst to happen so they can go back to blaming Pres. for the results but he could not have implemented it if they had not said yes so they are peeing on our legs and telling us Pres. has created a tsunami.
so just remember when you hear it, who's zoomin' who?
The latest numbers, first reported by the Washington Post, come from "reduction plans" Head Start grantees submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services. Head Start had to absorb a 5.27 percent reduction to its $8 billion in funding.
All told, 57,265 children (nearly 6,000 of whom attend Early Head Start) saw their services eliminated, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by HHS. The state to take the biggest hit was California, where 5,611 Head Start kids were denied a spot in the program.
In Texas, that number was 4,410. In New York it was 3,847. But underscoring just how widespread the effects of sequestration have been felt, even smaller states were impacted. In North Dakota, Head Start eliminated 194 slots in its program. In Rhode Island, it cut 450 positions. Even in far-flung Hawaii, 72 Head Starts slots were slashed.
they can only misdirect the resonsibility if we let them as with the dirty things they are trying to disenfranchise us with. Rev. Al, "lots of things were exceptable, until we stopped excepting them", recognize  do you want to enter another election cycle with right wing lies the last thing the public hears?
those right wing voters whose kids use the program ain't no special consideration cause you vote for them you kid gets kicked to the curb too.