While some Head Start programs are worried over a potential drop in enrollment due to a new rule from the Trump administration, a program director in the Rio Grande Valley said his students will be largely unaffected.

In July, the Trump administration made a rule saying children without legal status can no longer be part of the Head Start program — which is federally funded and offers resources to preschool-aged children and their families.

David Kowalski — director for Neighbors In Need Of Service, or NIÑOS Inc. Head Start for Cameron and Willacy counties, said most of his students have permission to be in the United States.

“But we have no guidance yet to define what we need to check,” Kowalski said.

According to the rule change, while Head Start provides school readiness, the Head S

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