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Children listen during storytime at the Ralph Hawley Head Start Center at the YMCA of the East Bay in Emeryville on Dec. 9, 2024. Photo by Florence Middleton for CalMatters
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Low-income families often can’t afford the services they need to set their young children up for success. For over six decades Head Start has been giving children aged 0-5 and their families access to education, healthcare and social services. But a proposed federal reform could make it harder for children experiencing homelessness to enter the program.
  • First, following another fatal plane crash over the weekend, we check in how things might have gone differently at San Diego International. Then, the extreme heat warning continues across the county. Also, student homelessness is on the rise across California. And, some local agencies are gathering to defend the Head Start program.
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