Who’s Not Going Back to School? How Sequestration Is Scaling Back Early Childhood Education Programs

August 28, 2013
For the 2013-2014 school year, Head Start and Early Head Start programs across the United States and its territories eliminated services for 57,265 children because the federal budget sequestration process required the Office of Head Start to cut spending by five percent, or $405 million compared to its 2012 budget of nearly $8 billion. This report by Katie Hamm of the Center for American Progress discusses how the cuts affect three groups: children who lose access to high quality early education programs, low-income working parents who lose access to affordable child care and preschool . . .