By MORIAH BALINGIT, MAKIYA SEMINERA and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers , leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

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