Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration’s Early Childhood Initiative

Good Start, Grow Smart: The Bush Administration's Early Childhood Initiative In his State of the Union Address delivered January 2002, President Bush outlined the next critical step in education reform the need to prepare children to read and succeed in school with improved Head Start and early childhood development programs. The Presidents call is built upon themes developed at the First Lady's Summit on Early Childhood Cognitive Development, held in July of 2001. Because a significant number of young children receive care outside the home, Federal and State governments provide more than $18 billion annually to help families . . .