More Than 100 Head Start Programs Face Closure Amid Government Shutdown

About 65,000 children attend the programs.

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

Some Head Start facilities, which serve young children from lower-income families, are set to lose funding due to the government shutdown.

About 140 Head Start programs across 41 states and Puerto Rico will lose operational funding on Nov. 1, absent action from Congress, according to the National Head Start Association.