From Yahoo News via Detroit Press 10/17/2025
Michigan’s state budget unexpectedly eliminated all $19.4 million in funding for a program that coordinates early childhood services in each county across the state, shocking school leaders, early childhood experts and parents.
Great Start Collaborative works in a wide variety of ways, for example, to get families access to child care and preschool, early childhood literacy programming, developmental screenings, home visits for new parents, family playgroups and parent educational events.
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