Post #10

This week I read an article titled "In Early Education, Obama Stirs Great Hope" by Sam Dillon. With the US education system declining rapidly over the last few years, it is good to see something that is hopeful from the Obama organization. He is proposing to give $10 billion dollars to the early education fund. This would greatly increase the country's ability to provide a solid education early on in a child's life. The current Head Start program is only $7 billion and covers about 900,000 kids. More than doubling the money given to this section of education would enormously change the setting of early education. If we are not able to provide young children with a good education from the start, they will have to be playing catch up for the rest of their childhood, and that will not help them as citizens of this country, or help us in our competition with the rest of the world, especially the Asian countries. We need to be able to plan for the future of this country, and invest in the kids that will be running this country in 30 years.