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#Trump’s Top #Child Care Official Wants a ‘Bonfire of Regulations’
As Americans face soaring #childcare cost, Alex Adams wants to loosen rules and tighten spending. Critics say it will harm #children and close #daycares
He said Federal childcare regulations should “fit on an index card in my back pocket." Among his targets: sweeping overhaul in a generation for #HeadStart, which provides child care and #preschool to thousands of poorest children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/child-care-regulations.html
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#Trump’s Top #Child Care Official Wants a ‘Bonfire of Regulations’
As Americans face soaring #childcare cost, Alex Adams wants to loosen rules and tighten spending. Critics say it will harm #children and close #daycares
He said Federal childcare regulations should “fit on an index card in my back pocket." Among his targets: sweeping overhaul in a generation for #HeadStart, which provides child care and #preschool to thousands of poorest children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/child-care-regulations.html
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The Best Seeds to Start Indoors in March, According to Gardeners https://www.allforgardening.com/1661126/the-best-seeds-to-start-indoors-in-march-according-to-gardeners/ #garden #gardening #HeadStart #ProductiveSummer #SoilTemperatures
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The Best Seeds to Start Indoors in March, According to Gardeners https://www.allforgardening.com/1661126/the-best-seeds-to-start-indoors-in-march-according-to-gardeners/ #garden #gardening #HeadStart #ProductiveSummer #SoilTemperatures
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My employer, the Oregon Child Development Coalition, has two temporary, six month general IT tech positions open. These are hybrid roles with three days in the office in Wilsonville and two from home, supporting a largely Windows environment. #GetFediHired #nonprofit #HeadStart
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My employer, the Oregon Child Development Coalition, has two temporary, six month general IT tech positions open. These are hybrid roles with three days in the office in Wilsonville and two from home, supporting a largely Windows environment. #GetFediHired #nonprofit #HeadStart
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What Happens If You Start Seeds Too Early? Gardening Pros Explain https://www.allforgardening.com/1621134/what-happens-if-you-start-seeds-too-early-gardening-pros-explain/ #EmilyScott #garden #gardening #HeadStart #OptimalConditions #ScottFarm #seedlings #SowingSeeds #TransplantShock #UnfavorableConditions
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What Happens If You Start Seeds Too Early? Gardening Pros Explain https://www.allforgardening.com/1621134/what-happens-if-you-start-seeds-too-early-gardening-pros-explain/ #EmilyScott #garden #gardening #HeadStart #OptimalConditions #ScottFarm #seedlings #SowingSeeds #TransplantShock #UnfavorableConditions
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YES. "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the #TrumpAdministration’s efforts to remake #HeadStart, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-head-start-dei-56c3da1a1688a9195c709192e9708699
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YES. "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the #TrumpAdministration’s efforts to remake #HeadStart, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-head-start-dei-56c3da1a1688a9195c709192e9708699
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Tennessee Titans Seek Coaching Interviews With Multiple Super Bowl Winners
The Tennessee Titans are busy lining up head coaching candidates to replace Brian Callahan after he led them…
#NFL #TennesseeTitans #Tennessee #Titans #AtlantaFalcons #BrianCallahan #defensivecoordinators #DenverBroncos #Football #headcoaches #headstart #IndianapolisColts #KansasCityChiefs #MattNagy #RaheemMorris #SteveSpagnuolo #SuperBowl #vancejoseph
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Tennessee Titans Seek Coaching Interviews With Multiple Super Bowl Winners https://www.rawchili.com/nfl/657644/ #AtlantaFalcons #BrianCallahan #DefensiveCoordinators #DenverBroncos #Football #HeadCoaches #HeadStart #IndianapolisColts #KansasCityChiefs #MattNagy #NFL #RaheemMorris #SteveSpagnuolo #SuperBowl #Tennessee #TennesseeTitans #TennesseeTitans #Titans #VanceJoseph
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It's not just illegally affixing his name to the #KennedyCenter. The attack is much more: the #CivilRightsAct, #Vaccines, #USAID, #FoodStamps, #HeadStart, the Special #Olympics, etc. What we (we w/a conscience, empathy, & intelligence) hold dear.
& "who better to have on side in a crusade ag. Kennedy initiatives than a Kennedy? it also doubtless served a psychological need for the president. . . Trump must also be keenly aware that a Kennedy is subject to him."
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/trump-has-declared-war-on-the-kennedys/
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It's not just illegally affixing his name to the #KennedyCenter. The attack is much more: the #CivilRightsAct, #Vaccines, #USAID, #FoodStamps, #HeadStart, the Special #Olympics, etc. What we (we w/a conscience, empathy, & intelligence) hold dear.
& "who better to have on side in a crusade ag. Kennedy initiatives than a Kennedy? it also doubtless served a psychological need for the president. . . Trump must also be keenly aware that a Kennedy is subject to him."
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/trump-has-declared-war-on-the-kennedys/
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Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
Pages 5 & 6:
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Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
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Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
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Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
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The #NaziDon Administration gave #Headstart a 6 page list of #BannedWords they are PROHIBITED from using when filing for Federal Funding. 🤦♂️
Look at this list. They aren't "swear words" or overtly sexual. They're banning words like "activism", "black", "Native American", "climate crisis", "systemic" & "trauma".
(I'll post the 6 page list below.)
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/12/Doc-135-1-Dec.-of-Mary-Roe.pdf -
The #NaziDon Administration gave #Headstart a 6 page list of #BannedWords they are PROHIBITED from using when filing for Federal Funding. 🤦♂️
Look at this list. They aren't "swear words" or overtly sexual. They're banning words like "activism", "black", "Native American", "climate crisis", "systemic" & "trauma".
(I'll post the 6 page list below.)
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/12/Doc-135-1-Dec.-of-Mary-Roe.pdf -
Ah, the classic tale of empty promises: $6.25 billion to give kids a "head start," but apparently, the only thing starting is a 403 error. 🚫💸 Maybe they should try upgrading their server before upgrading our children's futures. 🖥️🙃
https://www.onedell.com/investamerica/ #emptyPromises #headStart #fundingFail #techUpgrade #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the classic tale of empty promises: $6.25 billion to give kids a "head start," but apparently, the only thing starting is a 403 error. 🚫💸 Maybe they should try upgrading their server before upgrading our children's futures. 🖥️🙃
https://www.onedell.com/investamerica/ #emptyPromises #headStart #fundingFail #techUpgrade #HackerNews #ngated -
KCLU: Funding loss could lead to crisis for early childcare in the Tri-Counties
#childcare #cruelty #politics #headstart #SantaBarbaraCounty
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KCLU: Funding loss could lead to crisis for early childcare in the Tri-Counties
#childcare #cruelty #politics #headstart #SantaBarbaraCounty
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Two of the government shutdown’s most dramatic effects are about to hit
#SNAP and #HeadStart programs will start losing funding on Nov. 1.
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Two of the government shutdown’s most dramatic effects are about to hit
#SNAP and #HeadStart programs will start losing funding on Nov. 1.
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6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse – POLITICO
Congress Inside Congress Live Inside Congress newsletter Government shutdown
6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse
Programs ranging from Head Start to SNAP face new strain Nov. 1.
Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock)By Jennifer Scholtes10/27/2025 04:45 AM EDT
The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week.
With President Donald Trump traveling abroad and Congress still deeply divided over a path to fund federal agencies, a pileup of deadlines on and around Nov. 1 is set to put many U.S. households at risk of new hardship: Popular programs that provide nutrition assistance, early childhood education and air service to rural communities are now among those about to run out of money.
Thousands of federal employees will also miss their first full paychecks this week, so services like TSA screenings and air traffic control operations could be further stunted if those workers stop showing up, as was the case during the 35-day partial shutdown that ended in early 2019.
“Things are about to get worse,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned in a floor speech late last week.
And that’s to say nothing of the Nov. 1 date that open enrollment begins for Affordable Care Act health plans. That’s when people will start to see just how much their premiums are set to skyrocket because insurers aren’t confident Democrats and Republicans will reach a deal to extend enhanced tax credits before they expire at the end of the year — a central point of conflict amid the partisan shutdown impasse.
Trump employed a strategic — and unprecedented — maneuver to alleviate the first major pain point of the shutdown earlier this month, when he paid active-duty members of the military out of other accounts. Still, the White House has yet to take similar steps to fund several other priorities where payments come due in the coming days.
In Congress, some lawmakers are working to mitigate the shutdown’s effects on select services with piecemeal bills. But none of those measures are on the fast track to final passage.
As the shutdown hits the four-week mark and Thanksgiving fast approaches, here’s when cash is expected to run out for key programs if Congress can’t strike a deal soon.
SNAP food aid
Food assistance that more than 40 million people rely on — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will start to run out of money Saturday. And the Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to keep those food benefits going, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO.
At least 25 states are already planning to cut off benefits, which support low-income families.
Some lawmakers have been pressing the administration to tap into an agriculture contingency fund to pay out some of the benefits next month. That pot of cash only has about $5 billion left, though — far less than the roughly $9 billion needed to cover food aid through November.
Head Start
Federal funding will stop flowing Saturday to some early childhood education programs supported by Head Start, the Health and Human Services program that funds education, health and nutrition services for more than 800,000 children under the age of six.
More than 130 programs are set to miss federal funding, spanning 41 states and Puerto Rico, and serving about 59,000 children, according to the National Head Start Association, the nonprofit organization that represents the providers. Loss of federal funding means some teachers won’t get paid and some centers will close.
After funding first lapsed Oct. 1, Head Start programs serving about 6,500 children didn’t get their usual cash.
WIC nutrition assistance
The administration already buoyed funding earlier this month for the federal nutrition assistance program that serves about 7 million low-income mothers and babies by redirecting cash from an account that funds things like school breakfast and lunch programs.
But the coffers will dry up Saturday unless the Trump administration taps another $300 million in emergency cash for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC.
Essential Air Service
The Trump administration has warned that the Essential Air Service — which subsidizes airline service to small, often rural, communities — is likely to run out of funding over the weekend.
Some airlines serving Alaska and other remote areas of the country might have to increase airfare to have enough cash to pay staff in the absence of federal subsidies. Residents and businesses in hard-to-reach areas have been sensitive to disruptions in the program, especially after many airlines stopped operating out of small airports during the pandemic.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: 6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse – POLITICO
#2025 #America #DonaldTrump #Education #EssentialAirService #FederalShutdown #GOPShutdown #Hardships #HeadStart #Health #History #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #MissedPay #NutritionAssistance #Opinion #Politico #RepublicansDamage #Resistance #RuralAirports #Science #Shutdown #SNAPFoodAid #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpSDamage #TrumpSShutdown #UnitedStates #WICNutritionAssistance
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The #HeritageFoundation hopes to steer #funding for #childcare AWAY from programs like #HeadStart & toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents [wives] to stay home & rear children.
And the group wants #Trump to issue #ExecutiveOrders requiring ALL proposed policies & #regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts & marriage & family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly [whose metrics?].
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The #HeritageFoundation hopes to steer #funding for #childcare AWAY from programs like #HeadStart & toward individual families — specifically to encourage parents [wives] to stay home & rear children.
And the group wants #Trump to issue #ExecutiveOrders requiring ALL proposed policies & #regulations to “measure their positive or negative impacts & marriage & family” — then overhaul or end programs that score poorly [whose metrics?].
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Google Introduces “Head Start” Transfer Tool For Easier Pixel 10 Adoption #google #headstart #mobile #pixel10
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/364273/google-head-start-transfer-tool-pixel-10/
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Google Introduces “Head Start” Transfer Tool For Easier Pixel 10 Adoption #google #headstart #mobile #pixel10
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/364273/google-head-start-transfer-tool-pixel-10/
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The inquiries concern the White House’s handling of #ForeignAid, such as money for #Ukraine, along with #climate investments, including funds for #wind #energy & clean school buses, acc/to internal documents from June viewed by NYT. The admin’s treatment of #PublicHealth & #education #grants, such as those for #NIH & the #childcare program known as #HeadStart, are also being investigated, the documents show.
#Trump #law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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The inquiries concern the White House’s handling of #ForeignAid, such as money for #Ukraine, along with #climate investments, including funds for #wind #energy & clean school buses, acc/to internal documents from June viewed by NYT. The admin’s treatment of #PublicHealth & #education #grants, such as those for #NIH & the #childcare program known as #HeadStart, are also being investigated, the documents show.
#Trump #law #ExecutiveBranch #AbuseOfPower #Project2025 #RussVought
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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/11/2025
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New Trump rule immediately bans undocumented immigrants from Head Start child care
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CPH Daily Bulletin 7/11/2025
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New Trump rule immediately bans undocumented immigrants from Head Start child care
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Administration withdraws head start services, as early childhood education programs are known, for undocumented children. Goes along with general hating children.
#children #headstart #undocumented
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/11/headlines/trump_admin_withdraws_head_start_services_for_undocumented_children -
Trump administration cutting off Head Start for undocumented immigrant children
'For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration'
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Trump administration cutting off Head Start for undocumented immigrant children
'For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration'
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Trump administration cutting off Head Start for undocumented immigrant children
'For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration'
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Trump administration cutting off Head Start for undocumented immigrant children
'For too long, the government has diverted hardworking Americans’ tax dollars to incentivize illegal immigration'
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Connecticut Pilots a Better Way for Unhoused Kids and Caregivers to Access Homes
Connecticut’s “Head Start on Housing” program could serve as a blueprint for other states nationwide.
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Her order blocks the #Trump admin from finalizing #layoffs announced in March or issuing any further firings. #HHS is directed to file a status report by July 11.
The ruling applies to terminated employees in 4 different divisions of HHS — the #CDC; the Center for Tobacco Products within the #FDA; the Office of #HeadStart within the Administration for Children & Families & employees of regional offices who work on Head Start matters; & the Office of the Asst Secretary for Planning & Evaluation.
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Her order blocks the #Trump admin from finalizing #layoffs announced in March or issuing any further firings. #HHS is directed to file a status report by July 11.
The ruling applies to terminated employees in 4 different divisions of HHS — the #CDC; the Center for Tobacco Products within the #FDA; the Office of #HeadStart within the Administration for Children & Families & employees of regional offices who work on Head Start matters; & the Office of the Asst Secretary for Planning & Evaluation.
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The TX #Democrat had given #BillMoyers a summer job in his #Senate office in 1954 when Moyers was in college. [how most #lawyers get started—E.G., my (Nonilex) dad after his 2nd yr of #law school, worked for then-General #Shriver’s nascent #HeadStart program].
Moyers arrived on Capitol Hill &, w/o even unpacking his bags, worked through the night addressing 275k envelopes using a foot-operated “addressograph” machine. By the end of the summer, he was handling Johnson’s personal correspondence.
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The TX #Democrat had given #BillMoyers a summer job in his #Senate office in 1954 when Moyers was in college. [how most #lawyers get started—E.G., my (Nonilex) dad after his 2nd yr of #law school, worked for then-General #Shriver’s nascent #HeadStart program].
Moyers arrived on Capitol Hill &, w/o even unpacking his bags, worked through the night addressing 275k envelopes using a foot-operated “addressograph” machine. By the end of the summer, he was handling Johnson’s personal correspondence.
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Whacking #HeadStart and #JobCorps isn't blind slashing. Like the NIH and NSF indirect cost caps and the broader attack on higher ed, the goal is to end economic upward mobility. #Project2025 in action. Screwing poor people, especially poor non-white, non-straight, non-male, and non-cis people.
The Fash want people like me to own and run everything. Or, well, maybe not exactly like me... -
This is why billionaires do NOT belong in any #government. These #psychopaths will deny the #underprivileged any and all #avenues to #advance in life. #Criminal #felon #POTUS and the rest of the #corrupt #administration belong in #prison.
#USPolitics #HeadStart #opposeGOP #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #impeach #education #discrimination #children
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/19/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
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This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".
Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.
The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.
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This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".
Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.
The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.
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Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds.
Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being.
Last month, Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of #HeadStart -- the free early-childhood program for low-income families.
#Project2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy roadmap, also called for the program’s demise, saying it has “little or no academic value.”
That triggered an all-hands-on-deck response from Head Start staff, families and alumni -- who touted the program’s success in propelling families out of poverty.
The National Head Start Association said advocates sent more than 300,000 letters to Congress,
added more than 50,000 signatures to petitions and attended rallies throughout the country.Meanwhile, Head Start advocates took to social media and national TV to plead their case
and visited Republican members of Congress to convince them of the program’s value.
They reached out directly to the White House.
In their free time, advocates said they lobbied everyone from neighbors to hairdressers to gardeners — anyone who had even a remote interest in the program.
It appears to have worked:
The latest draft of Trump’s budget proposal, released last week, doesn’t call for any changes to the $12.27 billion program.
Still, advocates worry that new cuts may lie ahead.
“We mobilized absolutely everyone,” said Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start in California.
“We launched a very intensive campaign. We still have a lot of concerns, but right now there’s a sigh of relief.”
https://calmatters.org/education/2025/05/head-start-california/ -
Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds.
Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being.
Last month, Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of #HeadStart -- the free early-childhood program for low-income families.
#Project2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy roadmap, also called for the program’s demise, saying it has “little or no academic value.”
That triggered an all-hands-on-deck response from Head Start staff, families and alumni -- who touted the program’s success in propelling families out of poverty.
The National Head Start Association said advocates sent more than 300,000 letters to Congress,
added more than 50,000 signatures to petitions and attended rallies throughout the country.Meanwhile, Head Start advocates took to social media and national TV to plead their case
and visited Republican members of Congress to convince them of the program’s value.
They reached out directly to the White House.
In their free time, advocates said they lobbied everyone from neighbors to hairdressers to gardeners — anyone who had even a remote interest in the program.
It appears to have worked:
The latest draft of Trump’s budget proposal, released last week, doesn’t call for any changes to the $12.27 billion program.
Still, advocates worry that new cuts may lie ahead.
“We mobilized absolutely everyone,” said Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start in California.
“We launched a very intensive campaign. We still have a lot of concerns, but right now there’s a sigh of relief.”
https://calmatters.org/education/2025/05/head-start-california/ -
The Real-World Costs of Eliminating Head Start https://otherwords.org/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
The program was founded as part of the War on Poverty and has made life better for countless children and expecting parents from low-income families suffering from poverty and discrimination.
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The suit argues the cutbacks already enacted have jeopardized a range of congressionally mandated programs, including #MentalHealth & #addiction services, #HeadStart — the federal program that funds early childhood #education for #poor students — #Medicaid & assistance for #LowIncome households in paying heating & cooling bills.
