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Laramie Head Start warns of funding cliff as council hears public comment
Summary
A Head Start representative told the Laramie City Council that the local Head Start grant will expire Oct. 31, potentially ending full-day preschool, meals and therapy services for enrolled children and laying off employees. Council members and local foundations pledged to explore emergency support and community responses.
Joe Carroll, chairman of the Laramie Child Development Corporation (Laramie Head Start), told the Laramie City Council during public comment that the program’s federal grant will expire Oct. 31 and “55 children will no longer be received 2 meals a day and full day preschool services.”
Carroll, who identified himself as chair of Laramie Head Start, said 16 children on individual education plans could lose required therapy provided in an inclusionary preschool…
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