Michael1942's Blog

This is a letter that I sent to my State Congressman regarding problems in a Federally funded program:
“Dear Mr. Durbin, The past several years have seen the Head Start program under the management of the Springfield Urban League go down hill. Most recently (since May 2010) there have been 30 plus firings of Head Start teachers which accelerated once the employees decided to Unionize.The Urban league hired a retired low level state DCFS supervisor as C.O.O. and the problem became worse. There have been approximately 3 to 6 months of closed classrooms due to health hazards. At this time the program is down in enrollment by 20% due to the lack of qualified teachers (fired under the C.O.O.). Upper management appears to be unconcerned about their clients (the children) and their parents as they have seemingly kept the policy council and their own Board in the dark or at least in the shadows. The bottom line is that the clients and their parents are being poorly treated due the ineffective administration of this program. This is a problem that requires attention” I am hoping that some attention may be paid to this problem and possibly it will be resolved.