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1993.06.16 :  Head Start Advisory Committee

Contact:  David Siegel  (202) 401-9215
Wednesday, June 16, 1993                          

       HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the
formation of the Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and
Expansion.
       "This committee is being formed to help carry out this
administration's commitment to strengthen the quality and
effectiveness of the program as we expand it," said Secretary
Shalala.  "We want to ensure that more children reach school
ready to learn.  And we want every Head Start center to offer the
comprehensive family services and high quality early childhood
experience that are the core of the Head Start vision.   
       "The work of the committee will lead to an even stronger
Head Start program able to respond to the needs of today's
families and promote quality services in every community," she
said.
       The advisory committee will conduct an in-depth study of
Head Start and use the results to make recommendations on how to
ensure that all Head Start programs provide high quality
services.
       "The advisory committee will carry out a top-to-bottom
look at a program which has already demonstrated real success in
improving the lives of our nation's children," Secretary Shalala
said.
       "The committee report will help us improve the quality of
Head Start programs, provide support for today's working families
and reach more children."
       The advisory committee reflects diverse backgrounds and
perspectives and includes representatives from the Head Start
community, Congress, state government, the private sector, and
experts in children's health, education and development.
       The advisory committee, created under the rules governing
the Federal Advisory Committee Act, will have a charter and all
meetings of the full committee will be public.
       A list of the committee members is attached.

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Advisory Committee on Head Start Quality and Expansion

Kenneth S. Apfel, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget,
     Department of Health and Human Services

Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and Families,
     Department of Health and Human Services

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education,
     Department of Education

Kimberly Barnes-O'Connor, Children's Policy Coordinator, Minority
     Staff, Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee

Douglas J. Besharov, J.D., LL.M., Resident Scholar, American
     Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., and Visiting Professor,
     University of Maryland School of Public Affairs

Helen Blank, Director of Child Care, Children's Defense Fund,
     Washington, D.C.

Joanne P. Brady, Director, Programs for Children and Families,
     Education Developmental Center, Inc., Washington, D.C.

Patricia Cole, Professional Staff Member, Subcommittee on Children,
     Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, Senate Labor and Human Resources
     Committee

Commissioner, Administration on Children, Youth and Families,
     Department of Health and Human Services

Lee Cowen, Professional Staff Member, Minority Staff, House
     Education and Labor Committee

Dwayne A. Crompton, Executive Director, KCMC Child Development
     Corp., Kansas City, Mo.

Ada Deer, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work and American Indian
     Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison

David T. Ellwood, Ph.D., Assistant Secretary for Planning and
     Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services

Harley M. Frankel, (former Director, Head Start Bureau), Executive
     Vice President, Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles, Calif.

Bill Galston, Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy

Yolanda Garcia, Director, Children's Services Department, Santa
     Clara County Office of Education, San Jose, Calif.

Sarah M. Greene, Chief Executive Officer, National Head Start
     Association, Alexandria, Va.

Ronald D. Herndon, Director, Albina Head Start, Portland, Ore.

Allison Herwitt, Legislative Assistant, Representative Susan
     Molinari

Michael Iskowitz, Counsel, Senate Labor and Human Resources
     Committee

Judith E. Jones, Director and Associate Clinical Professor, National
     Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, New York,
     N.Y.

Sharon Lynn Kagan, Ed.D., Senior Associate, the Bush Center in Child
     Development and Social Policy, Yale University, New Haven,
     Conn.

Elaine E. Kamarck, Ph.D., Senior Policy Advisor, Office of the Vice
     President

Avis LaVelle, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of
     Health and Human Services

Alan Lopatin, General Counsel, House Education and Labor Committee

Stephanie Monroe, Minority Staff Director, Subcommittee on Children,
     Family, Drugs and Alcoholism, Senate Labor and Human Resources
     Committee

Evelyn K. Moore, Executive Director, National Black Child
     Development Institute, Washington, D.C.

Genoveva Morales, President, National Migrant Head Start Directors
     Association, and Washington State Migrant Head Start Director,
     Sunnyside, Wash.

Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Business
     Economics, and Director, the Entrepreneurial Studies Center, 
     John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of
     California, Los Angeles

Marshall Plummer, Vice President, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, Ariz.

Kelly Reali, Head Start parent, Utica, N.Y.

James Renier, Ph.D., Chairman, Executive Committee, Honeywell, Inc.,
     Minneapolis, Minn.

Julius B. Richmond, M.D., Professor of Health Policy, Emeritus,
     Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Shirley Sagawa, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic
     Policy

Isabel Sawhill, Associate Director, Human Resources, Office of
     Management and Budget


Lisbeth B. Schorr, Director, Harvard University Project on Effective
     Services, Washington, D.C.

Thomas W. Schultz, Ed.D., Director of Early Childhood Services,
     National Association of State Boards of Education, Alexandria,
     Va.

Diana Slaughter-Defoe, Professor of Education and Social Policy,
     Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

Patricia F. Sullivan, Senior Policy Analyst, Committee on Human
     Resources, National Governors' Association, Washington, D.C.

Lester Sweeting, Staff Director, Subcommittee on Human Resources,
     House Education and Labor Committee

Richard Tarplin, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
     Legislation, Department of Health and Human Services

Helen H. Taylor, Executive Director, National Child Day Care 
     Assoc. Inc., Washington, D.C.

Under Secretary, Department of Education

Valora Washington, Ph.D., Vice-President for Program, W.K. Kellogg
     Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich.

Sheldon H. White, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Harvard
     University, Cambridge, Mass.
     
Barbara A. Willer, Ph.D., Director of Public Affairs, National
     Association for the Education of Young Children, 
     Washington, D.C.

Edward Zigler, Ph.D., Sterling Professor of Psychology, Director of
     the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale
     University, New Haven, Conn.

                                  
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