Tens of thousands of children from low-income families could lose access to education, meals and health care if federal Head Start cash doesn’t resume by Nov. 1 — just as the funding drought stokes fears of lasting damage to the program.
A fresh round of grant money for Head Start, the 60-year-old federal early education program serving children under age 6, is in limbo as the federal government remains shut down.
The lack of funding is expected to hit Head Start centers in red and blue states alike as Republicans and Democrats spar over who’s to blame for the shutdown. And the program is in trouble despite the fact that bipartisan support for it runs deep, including from senior Trump administration officials such as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, whose agency oversees the program.
Read more at Politicio.
