Head Start has been holding children back

Published September 8, 2026 4:00pm ET



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Remember “drain the swamp”? The Trump administration is still at it, and it’s doing it marsh by marsh. The latest salvo is a Notice of Proposed Rule Making issued just last month by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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