YES. "A federal judge has temporarily blocked the #TrumpAdministration’s efforts to remake #HeadStart, ordering it to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from grant applications and barring it from laying off any more federal employees in the Office of Head Start."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-head-start-dei-56c3da1a1688a9195c709192e9708699
Trump officials bar Head Start providers from using 'women' and 'race' in grant applications
https://apnews.com/article/head-start-dei-women-race-599220b1cd39e3d6c585f8fe7811a59c
It's not just illegally affixing his name to the #KennedyCenter. The attack is much more: the #CivilRightsAct, #Vaccines, #USAID, #FoodStamps, #HeadStart, the Special #Olympics, etc. What we (we w/a conscience, empathy, & intelligence) hold dear.
& "who better to have on side in a crusade ag. Kennedy initiatives than a Kennedy? it also doubtless served a psychological need for the president. . . Trump must also be keenly aware that a Kennedy is subject to him."
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/04/trump-has-declared-war-on-the-kennedys/
@npr_bot Promoting to #TheGremlinZoo #HeadStart
(Full list above.) #ACLU #RacistInChief #Headstart #BannedWords
Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
Pages 5 & 6:
Words the #FascistInChief has prohibited #Headstart from using:
Page 1-4 of 6:
The #NaziDon Administration gave #Headstart a 6 page list of #BannedWords they are PROHIBITED from using when filing for Federal Funding. 🤦♂️
Look at this list. They aren't "swear words" or overtly sexual. They're banning words like "activism", "black", "Native American", "climate crisis", "systemic" & "trauma".
(I'll post the 6 page list below.)
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/12/Doc-135-1-Dec.-of-Mary-Roe.pdf
Ah, the classic tale of empty promises: $6.25 billion to give kids a "head start," but apparently, the only thing starting is a 403 error. 🚫💸 Maybe they should try upgrading their server before upgrading our children's futures. 🖥️🙃
https://www.onedell.com/investamerica/ #emptyPromises #headStart #fundingFail #techUpgrade #HackerNews #ngated
KCLU: Funding loss could lead to crisis for early childcare in the Tri-Counties
#childcare #cruelty #politics #headstart #SantaBarbaraCounty
>>The tribal representatives said the effects of the shutdown were already visible in their communities, where federal programs, grants and government staff are essential for everything from running school districts to community banks to heating assistance. At the top of mind for the advocates were the funding lapses programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, WIC and Head Start are facing.<<
https://www.notus.org/senate/tribal-nations-shutdown-senate-hearing
#Indigenous #Shutdown #SNAP #WIC #HeadStart #USPol #Tribal #NOTUS #USNews #Alaska
Trumps #governmentshutdown is just days away from becoming the longest in history and the Senate has left Washington without making any progress. And SNAP and #HeadStart are going to run out of funding on Saturday. #EvanMcMorris-Santoro, #MychaelSchnell and #PhilipBump join.
youtu.be/3u9qh2yvtfk?...
'Republicans panic': Democrats...
Head Start programs begin to close as funding ends during government shutdown
#USpol #USpolitics #HeadStart #GovernmentShutdown #Preschool #Education
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/head-start-closures-government-shutdown/
Two of the government shutdown’s most dramatic effects are about to hit
#SNAP and #HeadStart programs will start losing funding on Nov. 1.
Do you know how much your senators and representatives make in salary? A salary they are still receiving even during the shutdown? $174,000.
What say we demand our congress members donate their $174,000 salaries to their state food banks, school lunch budgets, and health departments?
Seems a relatively inexpensive way to guarantee their re-elections...
Shutdown Threatens Head Start Access for Tens of Thousands of Kids
Washington, D.C.— Funding for scores of Head Start programs hung in the balance as the government shutdown continued Monday without an end in sight. Unless a deal is reached to end the ongoing funding lapse that began Oct. 1, more than 65,000 children in 140 local Head Start programs across 41 states and Puerto Rico will not get their federal grant funding come Nov. 1…
This post has been syndicated from Truthout, where it was published under this address.
Thousands of #preschoolers could lose access to #HeadStart due to #shutdown
6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse – POLITICO
Congress Inside Congress Live Inside Congress newsletter Government shutdown
6 ways the shutdown is about to get worse
Programs ranging from Head Start to SNAP face new strain Nov. 1.
Illustration by Claudine Hellmuth/POLITICO (source images via iStock)By Jennifer Scholtes10/27/2025 04:45 AM EDT
The government shutdown gets uglier at the end of this week.
With President Donald Trump traveling abroad and Congress still deeply divided over a path to fund federal agencies, a pileup of deadlines on and around Nov. 1 is set to put many U.S. households at risk of new hardship: Popular programs that provide nutrition assistance, early childhood education and air service to rural communities are now among those about to run out of money.
Thousands of federal employees will also miss their first full paychecks this week, so services like TSA screenings and air traffic control operations could be further stunted if those workers stop showing up, as was the case during the 35-day partial shutdown that ended in early 2019.
“Things are about to get worse,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned in a floor speech late last week.
And that’s to say nothing of the Nov. 1 date that open enrollment begins for Affordable Care Act health plans. That’s when people will start to see just how much their premiums are set to skyrocket because insurers aren’t confident Democrats and Republicans will reach a deal to extend enhanced tax credits before they expire at the end of the year — a central point of conflict amid the partisan shutdown impasse.
Trump employed a strategic — and unprecedented — maneuver to alleviate the first major pain point of the shutdown earlier this month, when he paid active-duty members of the military out of other accounts. Still, the White House has yet to take similar steps to fund several other priorities where payments come due in the coming days.
In Congress, some lawmakers are working to mitigate the shutdown’s effects on select services with piecemeal bills. But none of those measures are on the fast track to final passage.
As the shutdown hits the four-week mark and Thanksgiving fast approaches, here’s when cash is expected to run out for key programs if Congress can’t strike a deal soon.
SNAP food aid
Food assistance that more than 40 million people rely on — the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — will start to run out of money Saturday. And the Trump administration won’t tap emergency funds to keep those food benefits going, according to a memo obtained by POLITICO.
At least 25 states are already planning to cut off benefits, which support low-income families.
Some lawmakers have been pressing the administration to tap into an agriculture contingency fund to pay out some of the benefits next month. That pot of cash only has about $5 billion left, though — far less than the roughly $9 billion needed to cover food aid through November.
Head Start
Federal funding will stop flowing Saturday to some early childhood education programs supported by Head Start, the Health and Human Services program that funds education, health and nutrition services for more than 800,000 children under the age of six.
More than 130 programs are set to miss federal funding, spanning 41 states and Puerto Rico, and serving about 59,000 children, according to the National Head Start Association, the nonprofit organization that represents the providers. Loss of federal funding means some teachers won’t get paid and some centers will close.
After funding first lapsed Oct. 1, Head Start programs serving about 6,500 children didn’t get their usual cash.
WIC nutrition assistance
The administration already buoyed funding earlier this month for the federal nutrition assistance program that serves about 7 million low-income mothers and babies by redirecting cash from an account that funds things like school breakfast and lunch programs.
But the coffers will dry up Saturday unless the Trump administration taps another $300 million in emergency cash for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC.
Essential Air Service
The Trump administration has warned that the Essential Air Service — which subsidizes airline service to small, often rural, communities — is likely to run out of funding over the weekend.
Some airlines serving Alaska and other remote areas of the country might have to increase airfare to have enough cash to pay staff in the absence of federal subsidies. Residents and businesses in hard-to-reach areas have been sensitive to disruptions in the program, especially after many airlines stopped operating out of small airports during the pandemic.
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With Head Start early education, first program moves onto Holy Rosary campus
On Tuesday, the nonprofit Prime Time officially opened a satellite location for its early childhood education program on the grounds of the historic Holy Rosary Institute, in the first move of a new program onto the soon-to-be revamped campus.
Since the start of the school year, nearly 60 kids have been attending pre-school classes at Holy Rosary, the first classes at the site since the Black Catholic school closed roughly 30 years ago.
“We couldn’t be more thankful to have young people back on this historic campus,” says Dustin Cravins, Holy Rosary Redevelopment Corporation board president.
The ribbon cutting outside Windolph Hall is the result of several years of planning and securing funds, with revitalization of the entire site now finally underway.
Published:June 110:50 am Dormant for decades, historic Holy Rosary Institute to see redevelopment this yearAfter decades of decay, the historic campus on Lafayette’s Northside will finally see shovels in the ground in what local advocates see as a recognition of the local community’s unique, but often overlooked history.
Cravins says demolition of some of the smaller buildings on campus will start this week, and the second phase, which will include renovations to the main structure, is scheduled to start in October.
The campus was also selected as the location for the new Northeast library, a career development center and a new building for Head Start classes to move to once construction is completed.
“It’s a historic place, and we want to be a part of bringing that back to life. And we’re more than honored to be maybe the first sign of that life,” Prime Time President and Executive Director Miranda Restovic says of Holy Rosary’s campus.
The Head Start program serves approximately 300 students in Lafayette, providing free early childhood education for kids ages six weeks to five years old from low-income families. Currently, Lafayette classes through the federally-funded program are offered by Prime Time at Holy Rosary and Immaculate Heart of Mary.
State Rep. Timothy Chassion, who was once a Head Start student over 40 years ago, shows the crowd at the press conference a shirt he designed and made as a student. Photo by Camden DohertyState Senator Gerald Boudreaux and Rep. Tehmi Chassion both spoke in support of Head Start and the overall plan for developing the campus. Chassion, once a Head Start student himself, showed the crowd at the press conference a shirt he made when he was enrolled in the program 41 years ago.
“My mom was smart enough to put me in [Head Start],” says Chassion. “[For] every kid that will come through this program, it will be the best possible thing,”
