‘Cutting into the bone’: Houston-area child care could suffer under looming Head Start cuts, advocates say

Stand up against proposed cut of Head Start program

TO THE EDITOR: I write today with disbelief that the White House intends to propose that Congress eliminate the Head Start program for preschoolers. How much more cruelty are we going to see from this president who continues to cut…

‘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.

Letter to the editor: From Harvard to Head Start

I woke up with happiness this Easter morning but it quickly faded to heartache when I read the Gazette article “Head Start could lose all funding”.

Federal cuts to affect health and child care services for thousands of local residents, nonprofit warns

Encompass Community Services, a nonprofit that provides health and human services, is urging Santa Cruz County residents to contact federal elected officials to save two funding programs they say will affect health and child care services for thousands. Proposed federal budget cuts would eliminate the Head Start program and cut Medicaid/Medi-Cal funding. Encompass provides mental health support, substance use treatment, housing support and wrapa…

Kids on Campus Initiative Shows Strong Progress in First Year of Connecting Head Start and Community Colleges

The five-year project aims to establish at least 50 Head Start childcare centers on community college campuses by 2030.