Out of 48 programs, nine Michigan Head Start grantees awaiting federal funds to keep running their programs on Nov. 1 risk closure if the shutdown continues and funds aren't disbursed.

Program administrators worry about the outsized impact closures could have on low-income kids and families who rely on the program for free child care and other wraparound services

Nine Michigan Head Start programs — and the nearly 3,000 kids they serve across the state — that were expecting to receive federal funds by Nov. 1 are at risk of losing these dollars if the federal government shutdown continues into next month, according to the executive director of the Michigan Head Start Association, Robin Bozek.

Head Start provides free child care and early education to kids living in poverty, while also ser

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