Dozens of Whatcom County children could be cut from local Head Start and Early Head Start programs if the automatic, across-the-board cuts known as the sequester are allowed to occur.
Those cuts are set to go into effect March 1, with impacts for education, public health, federal jobs and more.
In Washington state, more than 1,000 children could be cut from Head Start, a federal program that provides education, health, nutrition and parent involvement services to low-income children and their families.
In Whatcom County, about 18 children would be cut from the Opportunity Council’s Head Start program, nearly 12 from the Lummi Indian Business Council program and more than three from the Nooksack Indian Tribe’s program.
Do you think the automatic spending cuts should be allowed to go through, or should Congress avoid them by any means necessary?
good people need to pay their way or go home and don’t have kids you cannot afford for us to pay for thants it dummies demos
A) What business does the federal government have funding Whatcom county programs?
B) With all the casino revenue and ferry land extortion, er revenue, why can’t the tribes pay to educate their own children?
The Head Start program in our community is essential for providing under privileged children the tools that they need in order to succeed in public kindergarten. Children at Head Start are given the opportunity learn the necessary skills for kindergarten that they would otherwise not have, thus creating a further disadvantage between them and the children from wealthier families. Why should we punish small children for the disadvantages they have in life? Education is a basic tool to help end the cycle of poverty in our communities.
Cut cut. Cut head start!
contact Obama immediately.
sequester is HIS idea. he MUST have a reason for thinking it’s a feasible idea.
he’ll fill you in on his plan for these youngsters!!!!
Why do the parents at head start drive fancy SUVs? How can they afford these but not preschool!!
Tea party types would rather slit their own throats than contribute a nickel to the education of kids with darker complexions.
The government and taxpayers can’t afford it anymore, it was a waste of money anyway!
corvid – The advantages conferred by Head Start are dubious. Tea Party types would rather see money left in the pockets of all families so they can better provide for their own kids in the ways they best see fit. Most of us would like to see vouchers, so that poor families can exercise some power of choice over their decisions, rather than accepting the table scraps government has to offer them.
As to an across-the-board 2% cut in funding to all programs, there is something seriously wrong with any organization or program that can’t adapt to a 2% reduction in income. If it is that marginal in the first place, it should be allowed to die. During the recession, the company my husband works for asked its employees to take a 10% pay reduction to avoid layoffs. Managers took an even larger pay cut. It hurt, but employees recognized that it was better than killing the golden goose. Government somehow thinks it is somehow exempt from this same reality.
Wow, you all hate everything.
And rabble. Rabble rabble rabble. RABBLE.
I betcha can’t wait to take a whiff of your own gas the next time you bend over, either…and of you.
It certainly didn’t take liberals long to play the race card. What Peggy said is absolutely true. The headstart program nation wide is failing and not helping one student. Look up the facts. This is more liberal doom and gloom over a 2% cut. Shame on the herald for even printing this!!
Headstart is a very important program and it would be a big shame for cuts in this program, there needs to be more funding for schools and teachers in this state!