Head Start

SEIU Meets With Transition Team on Head Start

January 5, 2009

On December 5th SEIU testified before the Obama Biden transition project on our priorities for early care and learning. The transition meeting was led by transition team members from the Department of Education and the Health and Human Services transition teams. I’ve included the written document we submitted to the transition team, which provides an overview of our federal agenda for early care and learning. This document is also posted on the change.gov website.

Other organizations such as National Women’s Law Center, NAEYC, and The National Head Start Association also testified before the transition team on early childhood issues. Please see the change.gov website for their submitted agendas.

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Head Start and Child Care Federal Appropriations

June 23, 2008

The House Labor HHS Subcommittee held a mark-up this week on the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill, the Committee that has jurisdiction on Head Start and Child Care funding. While the budget process is far from over, the Subcommittee markup included a $254 million increase in Head Start funding for FY 2009 and a $50 million increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The Full Committee in House will hold a Mark-Up and Senate Labor HHS Subcommittee a markup of draft legislation the week of the 23rd.

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