GWB threatened Head Start teachers and parents with jail time if they spoke out!
I'll never forget it....Head Start needs Barack!
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WASHINGTON, D.C.///July 3, 2003///In a development that is very much in the spirit of the 4th of July holiday, the National Head Start Association (NHSA) announced today that it had prevailed in its effort to force the Bush Administration to end its attempt at chilling the First Amendment free-speech rights of 51,681 Head Start teachers and more than 870,000 parent volunteers.
NHSA President Sarah Greene announced that the Bush Administration had capitulated in the lawsuit by withdrawing a May 8, 2003 HHS letter sent to Head Start programs across the U.S. In the widely criticized letter, HHS threatened Head Start teachers and parents with civil action or even jail time if they spoke out against the Bush plan to dismantle the program serving one million at-risk children across America.
On July 2nd, the Bush Administration indicated that it would withdraw the letter and replace it with one making it clear that there is no basis for such a threat to be hanging over the heads of Head Start teachers and parent/volunteers. HHS was asked last week by a federal court judge to either write a letter that would address NHSA's objections or face a bench ruling.
Commenting on the Association's success in the lawsuit, NHSA President Sarah Greene said: "This is a great way for Head Start teachers and parents to be able to celebrate their 1st Amendment rights on a day - July 4th - that is all about free speech and other core rights that define what it is to be American. I am delighted that the Bush Administration recognized that its attempt to stifle free speech was unlawful and that it relented in its baseless attack on the 1st Amendment rights of over 900,000 Head Start teachers and parents."
more:
http://www.saveheadstart.org/News/releases2.cfm?releaseID=27peace~
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