Please read and share Anya Kemenetz' reporting on this "harrowing" time of budget cuts and uncertainty for Head Start, the program that has educated and cared for generations of young low-income children and parents that is now enduring the chaotic budget cuts and uncertainty of this moment.
Head Start is turning 60. Will the federal child care program make it to 61?
Providers operating on ‘razor-thin margins’ worry about the possibility of deep cuts
Anya Kamenetz
Never funded to serve more than a fraction of children eligible to enroll, the program is now reeling from staff cuts, glitches in payment systems, and Project 2025's proposal to eliminate the program altogether.
And as with so much else in this moment, there are few alternative plans for these children and families, or for the professionals who have been serving both.
