The Trump administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start, the early education program that serves some of the nation’s neediest preschoolers. Backers of the six-decade-old program,

Trump wants to cut early education opportunities for needy children and make them and their families hungrier and unhealthier in the process

Head Start has been spared from proposed spending cuts in Trump’s initial budget request, a relief to providers who feared they would be targeted by the administration’s campaign to reduce the size of government.