"A coalition of organizations representing Head Start providers and parents said in court filings last month that the Department of Health and Human Services told a Head Start director in Wisconsin to cut those and over a dozen other terms from her application. She later received a list with nearly 200 words the department discouraged her from using in her application, including Black, Native American, disability and women."
"The guidance could lead Head Start centers to preemptively drop anything that could be seen as fitting the administration's definition of DEI, said Ruth Friedman, who led the Office of Child Care under President Joe Biden. Grantees are sort of self-selecting out of those activities beforehand because of fear and direction they're getting from the Office of Head Start that they can't do these important research-based activities anymore that are important for children's learning and that are actually required by law, Friedman said."
The Department of Health and Human Services advised a Head Start director to remove dozens of terms from a federal grant application and later provided a discouraged list approaching 200 words. The list included terms such as race, belonging, pregnant people, Black, Native American, disability and women. The administration linked the terms to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and directed agencies to eliminate those initiatives. Parent groups and Head Start associations filed a lawsuit in April alleging the guidance unlawfully alters Head Start operations and violates the Head Start Act, which requires demographic information. Officials and former administrators warn grantees may preemptively abandon required, research-based activities.
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