DETROIT: Head Start money wasted all these years...Feds wake up.

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A new headline “Detroit may lose control of Head Start” is an admission from the federal government that Detroit is hopelessly broken and the millions of dollars that have been administered by the city for the last 20 years to help 7,000 children get a “head start” on their education was a waste of time and money.

The feds accused Detroit departments that handled the program (Human Services) with improper accounting (read corruption); extravagant spending (read corruption) and failed oversight (read incompetence).

You can lament the loss of all those taxpayer dollars but more damaging is the ineffective use of those dollars to help poor children get a head start in their lives.

One bright spot is that finally the federal government (under the first black president) is not simply dumping taxpayer dollars into a poor city but actually asking for accountability; Barak is no Lyndon B. Johnson it appears.

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