The following article by Leila Schochet was posted on the Center for American Progress website February 5, 2018:
“If Congress pulls the Dream Act, I would lose seven staff members. It’s huge.”
—Nancy*
Nancy is the director of a rural Midwestern Head Start center. Like many people across the country, she is concerned about the fate of nearly 800,000 young immigrants protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) initiative. Nancy’s Head Start program employs seven teachers who are protected by DACA. She worries about how her program will continue to operate if she loses those teachers. Continue reading “Trump’s Attack on Immigrants Is Breaking the Backbone of America’s Child Care System”