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Schumer Warns Against Head Start Overhaul | Albany News
Senator Chuck Schumer is rallying his Senate colleagues to defend Head Start, warning that proposed changes could dismantle its quality standards by shifting control to state and local authorities. Once a bipartisan cornerstone of early childhood education since the 1960s, Head Start serves hundreds of thousands of children nationwide—including over 50,000 in New York—and provides vital support to vulnerable families. Critics fear new rules could impose harsher documentation requirements and exclude U.S. citizen children of undocumented parents, threatening the program’s core mission. Schumer…
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