57,000 kids this school year have had their services cut thanks to federal budget reductions known as sequestration to the nationwide Head Start program.
The cuts resulted in elimination of medical and dental screening for kids as well as elimination of bus routes, a shorter school year and shorter school days, as well as laying off or reducing the pay for more than 18,000 employees nationwide.
57,265 children (nearly 6,000 of whom attend Early Head Start) saw their services eliminated, according to data provided to The Huffington Post by HHS.
Head Start is best known for providing preschool to low-income students, but it supplies many of its 960,000 children with two hot meals a day, transportation to and from school and basic medical care. Without these services, parents must find difficult-to-afford day care services or take off days of work to tend to their children.
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Do you think these cuts are fair? What would you cut instead?
