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What Trump's ban of undocumented children means for Head Start

Earlier this month, a federal judge issued a nationwide block on a new rule from the Trump administration barring undocumented children from participating in Head Start, the federally funded preschool program for low-income students.

Erica Meltzer, national editor at Chalkbeat, joins us to discuss what this could mean for the program.

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