Trump Wants to End Head Start While Boosting Military Spending to Record $1 Trillion

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Trump Wants to End Head Start While Boosting Military Spending to Record $1 Trillion

“Young learners and families around the country rely on Head Start and eliminating funding for this essential program would be devastating to local communities,” warned one critic. Critics on Monday decried the Trump administration’s consideration of a budget proposal that would completely eliminate funding for the early childhood education program Head Start—which serves over 800,000 […]

More Than 220 Children, Families to Lose Early Education Services and More Than 500 people to Lose Supportive Housing

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More Than 220 Children, Families to Lose Early Education Services and More Than 500 people to Lose Supportive Housing

  Anchorage – More than 220 children statewide will lose vital early education and more than 500 people will lose supportive housing services currently provided by Rural Alaska Community Action Program, Inc. (RurAL CAP), a statewide nonprofit, as a result of the Governor’s Fiscal Year 2020 state budget. “More than one-third of our Head Start […]