7/22/22

Navajo Head Start is facing more funding cuts as the program continues to be chronically under-enrolled.

Navajo President Ben Shelly has directed the Department of Diné Education to prepare for cuts and to begin taking action by the end of the month.

The funding reduction, which cuts available dollars nearly in half, takes effect Nov. 1.

That’s a loss of nearly $14 million per year from a program already struggling with compliance issues, past funding suspensions and difficulty finding and keeping qualified staff. A loss of federal dollars also could mean cuts to services on the sprawling, 27,000-square-mile reservation.

Source: Farmington Daily Times

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