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National | education | Jennifer Marshall

Benz-driving babysitters

BABYSITTING HAS BECOME BIG business for some top administrators in local Head Start programs. Federal officials are investigating reports that administrators of the federal program for low-income preschoolers have collected six-figure salaries.

In San Antonio, local director Blanche Russ-Glover reportedly collects an annual salary of $205,640, while other administrators working for her make more than $100,000. In Kansas City, another Head Start director, Dwayne Crompton, was paid $250,000 in 2002, down from more than $300,000 the previous year. Head Start money was also helping Mr. Crompton pay the lease on his Mercedes-Benz. Meanwhile Head Start teachers make an average of $20,700 a year.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has asked Mr. Crompton's Head Start project to return more than $800,000 in misused federal funds. Chairman John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) of the House education committee have also asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson for a list of salaries of the 25 highest paid Head Start administrators.

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