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From Hawaii New Now 9/18/2025 Partners in Development Foundation (PIDF) serves thousands of keiki and caregivers, but its president and…
From Phillyburbs.com 9/18/2025 Right now, Pennsylvania families and educators are caught in the crossfire of a state budget standoff. The…
19 Sep: State Cuts in Washington Scale Back Once-Ambitious Preschool Options for Low-Income Families
From The Imprint 9/18/2025 In recent weeks, Catherine Dennis welcomed parents and their young children to the Yakima Valley nonprofit…
From Education Week 9/11/2025 A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Trump administration restrictions on services for immigrants in the country…
From Ohio Capital Journal 9/10/2025 For 60 years, Head Start has provided child care for the most vulnerable children in…
From ACLU 9/4/2025 CONCORD, N.H. — The federal court in New Hampshire today temporarily blocked, for most public school districts,…
From The College Fix 9/2/2025 More than a dozen higher education institutions will lose federal grants to provide child care…
From The State House File.com 9/4/2025 Child care providers around Indiana will see reimbursement rate cuts of 10-35% as the…
From Education Week 9/4/2025 Federal spending is in the spotlight this year like never before, as the Trump administration has…
From WAPT 16ABC Students are heading back to the classroom after a busy summer for the U.S. Department of Education….
From The Network for Public Education House leaders just dropped their FY26 education bill, slashing $12.1 billion (15%) in K-12 funding for…
From the Network for Public Education (NPE) The federal tax credit voucher program included in the reconciliation bill is a…
From Truthout When Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, heard that the federal budget passed by Congress could eventually eliminate funding for…
From PBS News WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday struck down two Trump administration actions aimed at eliminating diversity,…
From MSN.com ATLANTA, Ga. – As students across Georgia return to classrooms, federal funding cuts are raising concerns about access…
From Coastal Point Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings has joined a suit against the Trump Administration to stop what she…
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday that undocumented immigrant children will no longer be allowed to attend Head Start, the federal program that provides child care, nutrition and health assistance to 800,000 low-income infants, toddlers and preschoolers.
The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on July 7 passed a bill that will continue to fund the state’s Pre-K Counts program even if federal Head Start funding is eliminated.
About two dozen state attorneys general and Democratic governors sued the Trump administration on Monday for withholding more than $6 billion in federal funds for several education programs nationwide.
Just weeks before the school year begins, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is refusing to release $8.6 billion in federal funds that Congress approved for public schools.