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Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality
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Article | The Nation
Politics / Trump’s Deregulation of Head Start Would Lead to Bigger Class Sizes, Lower Quality The administration has now made public a proposed rule to eliminate critical standards for services in the free preschool program.
That’s how we renew the promise of Head Start for the next generation.”
The proposed rule eliminates the requirements that limit Head Start class sizes and mandate a minimum number of adults to care for young children.
“I am really worried about safety,” said Lori Pittman, a former Head Start parent who works at a Head Start program in Washington State, on a press call on held on Thursday.
Head Start is such a big purchaser of these materials that these rules have driven up quality across these companies’ products.