Undocumented children will be permitted to remain in Head Start programs throughout the country while a case challenging an order by the Trump administration barring them makes its way through the courts,

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The city’s Head Start preschool programs will not be required to close this school year, but the change injected fresh uncertainty into an unsettled early childhood system.

There are two ways local Head Start programs secure federal funding: either by working with the city’s school system and being awarded funds through that process, or contracting directly with the the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Trump Administration is threatening the future of Head Start – a program that has provided critical and evidence-based services—from education to childcare— to more than 40 million children and their families. The Administration by gutting Head ...

The federal grant would have extended the early childhood education program for another five years, according to The New York Times.