This is why billionaires do NOT belong in any #government. These #psychopaths will deny the #underprivileged any and all #avenues to #advance in life. #Criminal #felon #POTUS and the rest of the #corrupt #administration belong in #prison.
#USPolitics #HeadStart #opposeGOP #TraitorGOP #TraitorMAGA #impeach #education #discrimination #children
https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/05/19/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
This is the definition of "penny wise & pound foolish".
Same with #defunding #Headstart. Same for #lead detection and removal.
The #GOP will have even more blood on their hands before this is over.
Chalk one up for the 4-year-olds.
Thanks to a relentless onslaught of pleading, cajoling, lobbying and public pressure, Head Start appears to have dodged the federal budget axe — for the time being.
Last month, Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of #HeadStart -- the free early-childhood program for low-income families.
#Project2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative policy roadmap, also called for the program’s demise, saying it has “little or no academic value.”
That triggered an all-hands-on-deck response from Head Start staff, families and alumni -- who touted the program’s success in propelling families out of poverty.
The National Head Start Association said advocates sent more than 300,000 letters to Congress,
added more than 50,000 signatures to petitions and attended rallies throughout the country.
Meanwhile, Head Start advocates took to social media and national TV to plead their case
and visited Republican members of Congress to convince them of the program’s value.
They reached out directly to the White House.
In their free time, advocates said they lobbied everyone from neighbors to hairdressers to gardeners — anyone who had even a remote interest in the program.
It appears to have worked:
The latest draft of Trump’s budget proposal, released last week, doesn’t call for any changes to the $12.27 billion program.
Still, advocates worry that new cuts may lie ahead.
“We mobilized absolutely everyone,” said Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start in California.
“We launched a very intensive campaign. We still have a lot of concerns, but right now there’s a sigh of relief.”
https://calmatters.org/education/2025/05/head-start-california/
The Real-World Costs of Eliminating Head Start https://otherwords.org/the-real-world-costs-of-eliminating-head-start/
The program was founded as part of the War on Poverty and has made life better for countless children and expecting parents from low-income families suffering from poverty and discrimination.
The suit argues the cutbacks already enacted have jeopardized a range of congressionally mandated programs, including #MentalHealth & #addiction services, #HeadStart — the federal program that funds early childhood #education for #poor students — #Medicaid & assistance for #LowIncome households in paying heating & cooling bills.
I know from first hand experience how important programs like Head Start, SNAP (food assistance), and LIHEAP (utility/energy bill assistance) are...
Funding for these programs is a fraction of the taxpayer dollars that go to military/defense contractors, yet they stabilize our communities and give families a chance to improve life for multiple generations...parents, kids, and grandchildren.
CommUnify’s Head Start and Early Head Start programs have served 55,000+ children and families since our first campus opened in 1967,
and currently we operate 20 campuses, serving close to 600 children and their families annually.
But the new administration’s proposed federal budget would completely eliminate Head Start and Early Head Start.
The premise of Head Start is simple:
every child, regardless of circumstance at birth, has the ability to reach their full potential.
Eradicating Head Start and Early Head Start will have an impact on our local workforce:
without these programs many of the parents of these children will not be able to go to work because they will not have safe and affordable childcare.
Now is the time to stand up and make our voices heard.
#SantaBarbara #HeadStart
https://www.communifysb.org/save-head-start
Education and child advocacy leaders are warning that a proposal to eliminate federal funding for Head Start could devastate Texas families, erasing decades of progress in early childhood education and worsening an ongoing child care crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-wwfD0qoSg
#DemocracyNow 25 April 2025
Trump's #WarOnChildren : #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, ChildAbuse Programs, Healthcare and More
But hey, let's make family planning and abortions illegal so we can STARVE more children!!! smh
Trump's #WarOnChildren: #DOGE Guts #HeadStart, #ChildAbuse Programs, #Healthcare & More
From Los Angeles Times: With Head Start in jeopardy, Trump administration threatens child care for 800,000 kids
Here’s why Trump’s plan to gut Head Start will hurt you, even if you don’t have kids
There is no American family or business that would be untouched by the ripple effects of abruptly gutting childcare for more than 700,000 families.
#HeadStart
www.fastcompany.com/91320429/how...
Here’s why Trump’s plan to gut...
HISTORY'S MOST ANTI-EDUCATION US PRESIDENT
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: #democrats #education #elizabethwarren #headstart #uspol #uspolitics :
Rep. Jaime Raskin: "Trump’s war on higher education and public schools has expanded to an exciting new front: pre-K! Elon Musk and DOGE are shutting down a preschool near you. The richest government contractor in the world will stop those 3-year olds from defrauding our people":
https://apnews.com/article/head-start-funding-preschool-child-care-closures-1f92fa98f320c7c14db63e69b986d11d #HeadStart #politics
“When RFK took an axe to #HHS, he didn't just cut scientific research & major health initiatives.
He went after programs that provide critical intervention for poverty-stricken kids.
One former employee familiar w/ #HeadStart told me they knew of an open inquiry into a report of an instructor who struck a child. It’s not clear who’s going to manage that case going forward, the former employee -bc the one who’d been handling it lost their job.”
KCLU: Thousands of families in the Tri-Counties impacted by cut to federally funded early childhood education program
https://www.kclu.org/2025-04-04/thousands-of-families-in-the-tri-counties-impacted-by-cut-to-federally-funded-early-childhood-education-program
The Houston-area nonprofit BakerRipley is expanding its Head Start and Early Head Start programs in Fort Bend County, opening two new centers in the Missouri City area within the last year.
“Rs have tried for years to cut$$ for these programs, have generally been unsuccessful. Head Start childcare funds are popular -may be a backdoor way of defunding: just fire all the people who process grant apps & cut the checks. At the very least, slows down$ getting out the door. PJ25 explicitly called for eliminating Head Start.”
-C Rampell
Defunding programs for young children, is an ongoing Republican battle, that primarily targets working women.
