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A Critical Win for Head Start’s Children and Families 
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A Critical Win for Head Start’s Children and Families 

Earlier this month, the Impact Fund and co-counsel including the ACLU won a court order on behalf of Plaintiff Head Start associations and parents’ groups protecting the Head Start program from attacks by the Trump administration.  Head Start provides early education, health services, and family support to more than 800,000 children from low-income families, children with disabilities, children learning English, Native American children, and others.  The court’s order blocks the Trump administration from cutting Head Start staff and offices, limiting diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility activities within the program, and putting the program’s federal funding at risk. 

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