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Tammy Duckworth: “Eliminating these standards is not cutting red tape; it is cutting the safeguards that help our nation’s most vulnerable…”

On the recordSeptember 4, 2026
Eliminating these standards is not cutting red tape; it is cutting the safeguards that help our nation’s most vulnerable children succeed.
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Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · Illinois

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Critiquing the removal of Head Start standards.

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