Preschool Network Head Start Sues Feds over ‘Word Ban’ of DEI Terms

Preschool network Head Start sues feds over ‘word ban’ of DEI terms

Head Start, an early-childhood network that pairs classroom learning with health and family support systems for infants through preschoolers at 1,600 local agencies, now faces new language curbs on its grant requests. Court filings show federal officials sent applicants a six-page list of roughly 200 terms to remove, a directive that providers say conflicts with their duties to deliver culturally and linguistically appropriate services and suppo…

Want funding? Head Start centers told not to use words such as ‘belong’

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Trump Sent Head Start A List of 200 Words To Stop Using

FatCamera/E+/Getty ImagesThe American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is fighting back in court against the Trump administration and Heath and Human Services (HHS) Department’s attempt to attack programming aimed at early education and the education of marginalized groups.“The Trump administration sent Head Start employees a six-page list of ‘prohibited words’ for grant applications, including terms like: disabilities, tribal, Black, and women,” th…

Head Start centers told to avoid 'disability,' 'women' and more in funding requests

New court documents reveal a list of nearly 200 words or phrases the Trump administration told Head Start programs it does not want to see in their funding requests.