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Parenting Skills
A Parent Involvement program that works with parents to
promote Healthy Marriages and Strengthening Families.
  
A Non-Profit
Organization
directed by a
Parent Policy
Council.
  
The Federal
Head Start and Early Head Start Program
for Travis
County, Texas.
The National Head Start Association and Pax World Funds (a socially responsible mutual fund) are releasing this afternoon the findings of a survey on the public's attitudes and opinions on Head Start and its future. The survey was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation.
Among the key findings:

More than nine out of 10 Americans (92 percent) support Head Start with federal money flowing directly to local Head Start programs.

 Public support for Head Start is bipartisan. There is no meaningful variation in support levels of the more than 90 percent of Americans who back the current arrangement, where Head Start funds flow directly from Washington to local programs: Republicans (89 percent); independents
(91 percent); and Democrats (96 percent).

Americans are leery about turning over Head Start to revenue-crippled states.

Americans support expanding Head Start to cover more children.

Lawmakers accused of "dismantling" Head Start face a likely backlash. More than four out five Americans (84 percent) would or might oppose an elected official accused of "dismantling" or otherwise "damaging" Head Start.

Proposals to cut parental involvement in Head Start are strongly opposed.

Full details on the survey findings are available. Please contact Maureen Thompson with the Hastings Group at 703/276-3251 if you have any questions.

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