A http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/opinion/28wed4.html ">New York Times Op-Ed on the changes to Head Start: House Republicans have an alarming plan for Head Start, the early childhood program for some of the nation's most impoverished children and their families: They want to give religious groups that sponsor local Head-Start programs license to discriminate by not hiring otherwise qualified individuals who do not share a particular religion.