The Government Education Monopoly...more BO lies exposed

According to John Stossel, those who support the current system of government education often point to programs like Head Start. Isn’t that something the government does well? Politicians love it. Hillary Clinton called Head Start “such an extraordinary success."

And so you've spent 166 billion dollars funding 45 years of head start classes. But now the Department of Health and Human Services has done another study of the results. This study was well-designed: several thousand kids applied for Head Start, but then, for the purposes of the study, half were randomly rejected from the program. The DHHS then followed the kids over the next two years.

What did they find? As CATO education expert Andrew Coulson summarizes:

Not a single one of the 114 tests administered to first graders -- of academics, socio-emotional development, health care/health status and parenting practice -- showed a reliable, statistically significant effect from participating in Head Start.

Even the DHHS admits, " the Head Start children and the control group children were at the same level on many of the measures studied."

166 billion of your dollars have made...no difference. Remember the president's promise?

Obama: "We've got to eliminate programs that don't work, and we're doing that." (3/26/2009)
Obama: "Eliminating programs that don't work to make room for ones that do." (2/23/2009)

So, since a government study found head start doesn’t have lasting effects, You might assume the program would be eliminated. Or at least cut back. But no. The study has hardly received any attention, and get this: The budget Obama just proposed would *increase* head start spending by a billion dollars.

THIS MOPE OF A PRESIDENT LIES SO MUCH THAT HE CAN'T KEEP HIS STORIES STRAIGHT ANY MORE!