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#Trump’s Top #Child Care Official Wants a ‘Bonfire of Regulations’
As Americans face soaring #childcare cost, Alex Adams wants to loosen rules and tighten spending. Critics say it will harm #children and close #daycares
He said Federal childcare regulations should “fit on an index card in my back pocket." Among his targets: sweeping overhaul in a generation for #HeadStart, which provides child care and #preschool to thousands of poorest children.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/us/politics/child-care-regulations.html
https://archive.ph/DhlZX

Trump’s Top Child Care Official Wants a ‘Bonfire of Regulations’

As Americans face soaring child care costs, Alex Adams wants to loosen rules and tighten spending. Critics say that will harm children and shutter day cares.

The New York Times

CBC Technology Science Apr 21

Drone seeding gives P.E.I. farmers a head start on season
A growing number of P-E-I farmers are using agricultural drones to give them a head start on the season. Spring time is muddy on the Island, making it almost impossible for heavy trucks and tractors to get into fields. But the drone is adding a couple of extra weeks to get work done before planting. Nancy Russell and drone operator Aaron Adetuyi have the story.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7170857?cmp=rss

CBC Prince Edward Island Apr 21

Drone seeding gives P.E.I. farmers a head start on seaso
A growing number of P-E-I farmers are using agricultural drones to give them a head start on the season. Spring time is muddy on the Island, making it almost impossible for heavy trucks and tractors to get into fields. But the drone is adding a couple of extra weeks to get work done before planting. Nancy Russell and drone operator Aaron Adetuyi have the story.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7170857?cmp=rss

Nate Allen Feb 27

My employer, the Oregon Child Development Coalition, has two temporary, six month general IT tech positions open. These are hybrid roles with three days in the office in Wilsonville and two from home, supporting a largely Windows environment. #GetFediHired #nonprofit #HeadStart

https://www.ocdc.net/careers/

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Feb 17

Some more guilty than others, but the entire #culture is #complicit. And I'm not going to put it just on #white #people, but I'm not going to not put it just on white people either. They had the #headstart with leverage and still maintain most of it. White people pull your head out and get it right.

Bruce Mirken Jan 8

YES. "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the #TrumpAdministration’s efforts to remake #HeadStart, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-head-start-dei-56c3da1a1688a9195c709192e9708699

#DEI

Judge blocks purge DEI-related terms in Head Start grant applications

A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start. The decision follows an April lawsuit by organizations representing Head Start providers and parents. They are challenging the Department of Health and Human Services' attempts to exclude children in the U.S. illegally and ban language associated with DEI efforts. A Health and Human Services spokesperson said he could not comment on the judge’s order.

AP News

BakersRelay Jan 6

#GremlinZoo #Headstart #DEI

Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using 'women' and 'race' in grant applications

https://apnews.com/article/head-start-dei-women-race-599220b1cd39e3d6c585f8fe7811a59c

Trump officials bar 'race,' other terms in Head Start grant applications

The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.” The directive could reshape the early education program. A coalition of organizations representing Head Start providers and parents said in court filings last month that the Department of Health and Human Services told a Head Start director in Wisconsin to cut those and over a dozen other terms from her application. President Donald Trump’s administration associates the terms with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, which it has vowed to root out across the government.

AP News

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Jan 4

It's not just illegally affixing his name to the #KennedyCenter. The attack is much more: the #CivilRightsAct, #Vaccines, #USAID, #FoodStamps, #HeadStart, the Special #Olympics, etc. What we (we w/a conscience, empathy, & intelligence) hold dear.

& "who better to have on side in a crusade ag. Kennedy initiatives than a Kennedy? it also doubtless served a psychological need for the president. . . Trump must also be keenly aware that a Kennedy is subject to him."

https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/trump-has-declared-war-on-the-kennedys/

#USPol