GAO Investigation Finds Head Start Engaged in Fraudulent Behavior
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The federal government’s Head Start program comes under scrutiny today by the House Education and Labor Committee, which will examine a Government Accountability Office investigation that discovered fraudulent behavior and unlawful actions in the program’s enrollment and eligibility processes.
Chairman George Miller (D-CA) called today’s 1:30 p.m. committee hearing after learning of GAO’s undercover investigation. Last week Miller asked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to conduct an immediate review of Head Start, an early childhood education program first started in 1965. The GAO report is not yet publicly available.
These developments about Head Start come in the wake of the recently released Head Start Impact Study, which showed no lasting impact on children who participated in Head Start by the time they reached first grade.