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To: alanrs who wrote (43348)	10/2/2011 12:41:51 PM
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articles.latimes.com Don't Mess With Head Start's Success EDUCATION The program isn't broken, so Republicans shouldn't "fix" it with misguided changes. February 22, 2004\|Kay Mills \| Kay Mills is the author of "Something Better for My Children: The History and People of Head Start." Head Start works. A government study in 2001 showed that the federal preschool program for children from low-income families improved participants' vocabulary and writing skills and narrowed the gap between them and more affluent youngsters. Last year, a San Bernardino County study found that kindergarten students who had gone through Head Start scored 9% better in literacy than students from similar backgrounds who had not participated in the program. They were also 9.6% better in language skills and 7.3% better in math skills. And they were absent from school 4.5 fewer days than their peers who hadn't gone through the program. Other research has shown that Head Start children are less likely to need special education services, less likely to repeat grades and more likely to graduate from high school.