Statement on signing the Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007.(Week Ending Friday, December 14, 2007)

From: Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents | Date: December 17, 2007 | Copyright information

December 12, 2007

Today I signed into law the "Improving Head Start for School Readiness Act of 2007," a bill to reauthorize Head Start. Over the past 40 years, Head Start has provided comprehensive child development services to more than 20 million low-income children and their families to promote school readiness. Because of the National Reporting System, we know that more Head Start programs are helping children gain early reading and math skills. But we must take ste...

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