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Assembly adopts resolution designating May 2025 as Head Start Month and urges federal funding protections
Summary
The California State Assembly on June 4 adopted AJR 12, a bipartisan joint resolution recognizing May 2025 as Head Start Month and calling on the U.S. Congress and president to protect and increase funding for the Head Start program. The resolution passed 70-0 and had 69 members sign on as coauthors.
The California State Assembly on June 4 adopted Assembly Joint Resolution 12, recognizing May 2025 as Head Start Month and urging the U.S. Congress and the president to protect and increase funding for the federal Head Start program. The measure passed by roll call, Ayes 70, Nos 0.
Assemblymember Hadwick, the resolution’s author, said she rose “not just as a legislator, but as someone whose life was shaped by the very program we've been fighting to protect,” and asked members for an aye vote. The resolution recorded 69 additional coauthors before the final vote.
AJR 12 calls attention to Head Start’s role in providing early childhood education and wraparound…
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