By Jill Nolin | Editor
“Reducing paperwork can be a great thing, but we don’t want to reduce actual accountability towards achieving high quality services for this population of children.”— Kristin Bernhard, the CEO of the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students
The Head Start program was launched in 1965 as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. Over 1,400 rules could be rescinded under a new rule change proposal submitted by the HHS. Getty Images
EARLY EDUCATION
By Maya Homan
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to roll back regulations on a key early education program for low-income families, the agency announced Thursday.
The program, known as Head Start, provides early childhood education, nutritious meals, health screenings and other services to more than 23,000 children and their families across Georgia, according to the Georgia Head Start Association.
President Donald Trump on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 signed two new executive orders on birthright citizenship. In this photo, Trump addresses the nation from the East Room of the White House on July 16, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Saul Loeb/Pool - Getty Images)
IMMIGRATION
By Ariana Figueroa
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders in his second attempt to deny citizenship to babies born to noncitizens, following the Supreme Court’s defeat this summer of an earlier order to redefine birthright citizenship.
Trump said the Supreme Court ruling was “an unfortunate decision” so “we’re making adjustments” to birthright citizenship, which is included in the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment.
Both executive orders are likely to face swift legal challenges, possibly all the way to the Supreme Court again.
A federal judge ruled it was unlawful that the EPA canceled $1.6 billion in environmental and climate justice grants. (Photo by the Washington Department of Ecology via Washington State Standard)
ENVIRONMENT
By Nada Hassanein, Stateline
Two courts this week dealt blows to the Trump administration’s attempts to withdraw clean energy and climate grants.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency could not terminate $20 billion in clean energy grants awarded to nonprofit groups.
And a federal judge on Monday denied the Trump administration’s attempt to halt a court order to restore $1.6 billion in climate justice grants, saying the Environmental Protection Agency must reinstate the money.
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