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Head Start has helped over 30 million kids since 1965. It was built to give poor children a fair shot before kindergarten. Now the Trump administration wants to gut the standards that make it work, while calling it “cutting red tape.”

nytimes.comTrump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.

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NYT: "The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth."

"The White House’s final budget plan kept the money (for Head Start) in… So proponents of upending the program tried a new approach. In June, the Heritage Foundation issued a report calling on the administration to 'sunset Head Start and deregulate the program until officials end it.’ “

They want to strip away the help that lets a struggling parent get their kid to a doctor, spot a learning delay early, and show up to school ready to learn.

The cruelty is aimed at the children least able to absorb it. This is morally reprehensible. We’ll fight it in every way we can.

Don’t forget a key benefit of Head Start is it also allows poor parents, often minorities, the opportunity to have their children educated in a safe space while they work during the day. This doesn’t just hit the children themselves, it ripples throughout the entire social fabric.

It's a huge invitation for economic whiplash. Seems like that would have been obvious to them, since it's really only their wallets they care about.

I worked at Head Start. That red tape is accountability for the grantees. It ensures that the $ are spent appropriately and best practices are used in the classrooms.

This regime is driven by hate and greed. As much as trump is to blame, so is Mike Johnson and his fellow Heritage Foundation lackey, Russell Vought. They claim to be devout Christians but their actions belie their empty words. They’re just hard core christofascist sadists.

bingo. but just the poor kids. their own kids, they want overseeing the rest of us, so their kids will get the vaccines, the quality early childhood education, the good nutrition, etc. they are ghouls, pure and simple, no human hearts in them at all, only hate and destruction and greed.