More Than 100 Head Start Programs Closed Indefinitely Due to Government Shutdown

Stalled grants have caused closures that will go on indefinitely.

A child on a bus at a Head Start program in a file photograph. Mario Villafuerte/Getty Images

Head Start programs nationwide were forced to close at the start of November due to the government shutdown, which is now entering its second month. 

Dozens of child care centers are missing federal grant payments, leaving parents of what the program calls “America’s most vulnerable young children” without care for kids up to 4 years old.