Families in Bucks County depending upon services through Head Start can breathe a sigh of relief for the next five years as Head Start funding was announced on the day the grant was proposed to sunset.
The Bucks County Intermediate Unit announced Monday that its Head Start funding was renewed. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Administration for Children and Families awarded the annual $5.849 million grant to Bucks County, for the five-year funding cycle.
Federal funding for Head Start was in limbo nationwide after the Trump administration put the program on the chopping block in an early draft of its federal budget bill. However, when that was removed from the budget the uncertainty continued when on May 1 the Bucks IU announced it did not receive formal notification of the grant’s renewal. Two days later it then announced that it received a one-month federal continuation set to expire June 30…