Head Start Leader Resigns Abruptly

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Windy Hill, the leader of the Head Start preschool program, resigned abruptly Friday. Hill has been under review by the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general over accusations of financial abuses at the Head Start center she ran in Bastrop, Texas, before becoming associate commissioner of the federal program in 2002.

Hill has said she asked for the review to clear her name of the charges, which were raised by the National Head Start Association, a lobbying group that has clashed with the Bush administration.

An announcement of Hill's resignation, released by the department late Friday afternoon, made no mention of the investigation and offered no reason for Hill's immediate departure.

But in a statement to staff, Hill said she was leaving for family reasons, to pursue other opportunities and to perhaps advance her education, said department spokesman Chris Downing.

The status of the inspector general's review was unclear Friday. The case was open and active as of Thursday, said Don White, spokesman for the HHS inspector general's office.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-head-start,0,2387236.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[rodeodance]

1. umm... another one of those transplants from Tx to the WH!!

[Lerkfish]

2. "family reasons" uhhunh...

[UpInArms]

4. ummmm... yeah

leaving for family reasons, to pursue other opportunities and to perhaps advance her education

working outside the home has created problems :eyes:

so she's going to work outside the home again (maybe) :eyes:

or maybe she'll go back to college to learn how to say: "Do you want that supersized?" :eyes:

[rockedthevoteinMA]

3. friday afternoon news dump, huh? n/t

[Miss Chybil]

5. Uh, I think I'll spend some time with my family, maybe get another job, or

go back to school... Sounds like a plan.

[Moderator]

6. kick to combine

[brooklynite]

7. Head Start's Director Quits Amid Review

WASHINGTON, May 27 (AP) - The director of the federal Head Start preschool program, Windy M. Hill, resigned abruptly Friday.

Ms. Hill has been under review by the Health and Human Services Department's inspector general over accusations of financial abuses at the Head Start center she ran in Bastrop, Tex., before becoming associate commissioner of the federal program in 2002.

Ms. Hill has said she asked for the review to clear herself of the accusations, which were raised by the National Head Start Association, a lobbying group that has clashed with the Bush administration.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/28/politics/28head.html
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Probably just another "bad apple". Nothing wrong with the Adminsitration's education policy...

[AlCzervik]

8. gee if she didn't do anything wrong you'd think she'd

stay until the review was completed.