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February 7, 2006
 The Bush Administration's Fiscal Year 2007
Budget Proposal Would Slash Head Start
and Early Head Start Enrollment
In its fiscal year 2007 budget proposal, the Bush administration
proposed a zero increase in federal funding for the Head Start and
Early Head Start programs. National Head Start Association estimates
that flat funding the Head Start and Early Head Start programs in
fiscal year 2007 would result in the equivalent of closing
enrollment to at least 19,000 children in fiscal year 2007.
Head Start and Early Head Start programs must make difficult
financial decisions about supplying high quality services because
they have faced severe financial constraints over the past few
years. In fact, these constraints, when combined with the Bush
administration's fiscal year 2007 budget proposal, mean that
programs will have experienced an 11 percent real cut in federal
funding since fiscal year 2002. These programs cannot cut back on
critical services because that would lower the quality of their
programs and put them out-of-compliance with the Head Start
monitoring system. The expected losses are detailed by state in this
report.
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