(4-30-25) The Dunkirk (Indiana) Head Start, according to a Commercial Review story, has ceased to operate.

Commercial-Review – Head Start closed in Dunkirk

Pam Robbins of West Jay Community Center told CR that the Dunkirk facility has been consolidated locally in Portland. She said that of the 12 children who were housed at Dunkirk, only two made the move to the Portland site and said finances were sited as the reason for the change..

Federal cuts were made on April 1st, 2025, the Trump administration closed and laid off all staff in five of the Head Start’s 10 regional offices—Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.

Head Start was started sixty years ago as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. In Ohio families choose Head Start and Early Head Start programs for a variety of reasons, including the following: If families are eligible, they receive free high-quality, comprehensive early childhood services.

Local Head Start program leaders, parents fear impacts of possible cuts to federal funding

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