Head Start
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This Head Start center teaches in two languages. A Trump overhaul would require one: English
IMMOKALEE, Fla. | It’s almost noon, and after playing on the playground, working with clay and washing their hands, the 2-year-olds are ready for lunch. The eight children and their Head Start teachers pray in English, thanking God for the meal. Then, the adults bring over several bowls. “Hoy tenemos arroz.” In Spanish, the teacher […]
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Head Start preschools serve parents, too. Under Trump, advocates fear that will change
WASHINGTON | Cassie Reed and her two young children had just moved from a domestic violence shelter into a third-floor apartment in Spokane, Washington, when she spotted a soon-to-open Head Start preschool on the building’s ground floor. Much of Reed’s first three decades of life had been shaped by abuse and neglect: first, she says, […]