Houston Public MediaEducation 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.
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‘Cutting into the bone’: Houston-area child care could suffer under looming Head Start cuts, advocates say
The White House is expected to unveil a budget proposal that will, reportedly, aim to eliminate Head Start. The federally-funded program is designed to promote school readiness among young children from low-income families and serves more than 1,300 children in Harris County and 500 in Fort Bend County.