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Concerns about potential cuts to Head Start funding
1:25:20
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39 sec
Council Member Brewer expresses concern about the potential disappearance of Head Start funding, which is not directly under ACS's control. Commissioner Dannhauser acknowledges the importance of Head Start and mentions ongoing contingency planning and advocacy efforts to prevent cuts.
- The administration is conducting contingency planning across the city to ensure important programs continue
- There are advocacy efforts to prevent potential cuts
- Head Start is described as 'vital' to communities
Gale A. Brewer
1:25:20
Thank you.
1:25:21
I assume, because I'd like to be positive, that Head Start does not disappear.
1:25:25
That's not you.
1:25:26
I understand that.
1:25:27
But is the administration planning, god forbid, that should happen?
Jess Dannhauser
1:25:33
It is not our program directly,
Gale A. Brewer
1:25:36
because remember I should mention I know is one administration.
Jess Dannhauser
1:25:39
Yeah, understood.
1:25:40
I'm just I know that there's lots of contingency planning going on across the entire city to make sure that the most important programs continue, and looking at what might be cut out.
1:25:52
Also advocacy, right, to make sure that we head off any potential cuts.
1:25:57
Head Start is vital to our communities.
1:25:59
Vital.