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Send a Letter to the Editor Urging Congress to Protect Head Start from RFK Jr.’s Attacks!
Secretary RFK Jr. is attacking Head Start, proposing to eliminate most of the program's standards and roll back regulatory rules in a move that will further exacerbate our nation’s worsening child care crisis while spelling disaster for the hundreds and thousands of children and families who rely on Head Start for care and so much more.
Programs like Head Start are more critical than ever. The child care system has been unaffordable and unattainable for families across the nation for decades. Yet instead of working to address this ongoing crisis, Secretary Kennedy and the current administration are undermining Head Start by imposing harmful rule changes to the program.
These changes will harmfully:
- Reduce quality early learning, health, family engagement and leadership, and comprehensive support services to children and families.
- Worsen child care ratios by increasing classroom numbers.
- Reduce qualification and credential standards for teachers.
- Remove guidelines around supporting children with disabilities, who make up the required 10% Head Start enrollment for disabled populations.
- Heavily impact rural communities, where Head Start is often the only reliable early learning and child care program available to families.
Now is an important time to remind your member of Congress that regardless of political affiliation, our nation needs to support critical programs like Head Start so parents can go to work, kids can thrive, child care workers can stay in their profession, and businesses can prosper.
Make your voice heard by submitting a letter to the editor of your local paper. (We make it easy and fast with our letter to the editor tool).
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Tell Congress to immediately call on Health and Human Services (HHS) to rescind RFK Jr’s disastrous rule changes and protect Head Start!
Send a Letter to the Editor Urging Congress to Protect Head Start from RFK Jr.’s Attacks!
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