Head Start Cuts Make Local Impact in New York

Cuts to Head Start, a pre-school and development program for low-income children, are making an impact on the local level. One in upstate New York has had to shut down bus service, forcing busy parents to drive their children to the head start center every day. Susan Collins is excited for her 3-year-old son, who will begin preschool in September. But last week, the Queensbury mother of two learned she will have to transport her child to the preschool in Glens Falls because bus transportation has been axed, due to a lack of federal money. Collins won't be the only parent in that fix. There will be 119 children enrolled at the Warren County Head Start center on Pearl Street in Glens Falls. Most of them will have to find their own way to school, after Head Start officials terminated the bus routes to Glens Falls.
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