Head Start, Trump
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced in a press release Thursday that the agency will restrict undocumented immigrants from accessing Head Start, a federal program that provides children with education,
The prohibition forces Head Start to start screening children and families for their immigration status for the first time in its 60-year history.
President Donald Trump's administration is proposing a ban on federally funded programs for anyone who can’t show legal status, including babies in the Head Start child care program.
The program was targeted by Project 2025 as having "little or no academic value." That couldn't be further from the truth past participants say.
For ECKAN Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Lyon County, next fall’s programming is expected to run similar to last year.
The Center for Transforming Lives — a Tarrant County nonprofit focused on disrupting the cycle of poverty for women and children through housing, counseling, early childhood education and economic mobility services — is another local Head Start and Early Head Start provider that serves about 450 children and families in the programs.