New York City low-income families can continue to participate in city-run Head Start programs for at least another year after the Adams administration stepped in to fill a funding gap following the cancellation of a federal grant.

The lack of affordable child care in the city has been a top concern for parents, and a talking point in this year’s mayor’s race. The city’s Head Start program, which provides year-round child care to children ranging from infants to 4-year-olds for low-income families, supports about 6,000 infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Education department officials confirmed Wednesday that the city had lost a federal grant worth about $78 million, which had been a key pillar of the city’s early childhood education infrastructure for at least a decade.

But Adams admini

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