Head Start is a federal childcare program that serves the country’s lowest-income families — those earning less than $33,000 a year for a family of four.
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The Trump administration is plotting a sweeping overhaul of Head Start that could threaten childcare for more than half a million children across the country. The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday a proposed rule that would “increase access” to Head Start by “capping the cos…
The intense defense of the status quo underscores how a program born of expansive federal ambition has become resistant to practical updates that were hoped to prioritize efficiency and local control over Washington's "0ne sise fits all" prescribed uniformity.
Head Start is a federal childcare program that serves the country’s lowest-income families — those earning less than $33,000 a year for a family of four.
The Trump administration appears poised to gut the central policies that shape Head Start, a popular and long-established early childhood education program that serves the country’s neediest children. The Department of Health and Human Services announced the changes Thursday.
The Trump administration is pushing a total overhaul of Head Start that could fundamentally reshape the 60-year-old program that has provided childcare and key support for America’s lowest-income families.
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