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Teatro De Artes to unveil first community art exhibit Mobile art piece to showcase Seguin's cultural diversity throughout the public (Seguin) – Evidence of Seguin’s rich cultural diversity will begin rolling out thanks to a $50,000 grant designed to help the community better understand its history. Teatro De Artes De Juan Seguin is thrilled
to announce the unveiling of the first of threetraveling co-community creations of art exhibits made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Our Town program. Teatro, pg. 4
Head Start program forced to close pre-k classroom Families work to find alternate programs for local three-year olds Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
(Seguin) -- After just over two months, a group of 3-year-olds is having to say goodbye to school. The Community Council of South-Central Texas, which operates the Head Start Program in Seguin and neighboring communities, recently had to announce to the parents of one of its classes in Seguin that due to funding cuts by the federally operated Head Start office, it was forced to close one of its classrooms located in the center on North Austin Street. CCSCT Executive Director Bobby Deike says the funding cuts reportedly resulted from the Head Start Office’s decision to change the enrollment number it was willing to fund.
“After we enrolled children for the new school year, we had enrolled 83 children for Head Start both here in Seguin and our New Braunfels Center, our New Braunfels ISD agreement at Lonestar Early Childhood and at our new ISD agreement with Navarro ISD. So, we had a total of 83. On Sept. 9, we received a formal letter from the office of Head Start informing us that they were reducing our enrollment to 69 slots and along with that, CCSCT would sustain a large cut in funding because of the reduction,” said Deike. Deike says this news, which impacted its pre-school classroom, was a complete shock to
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his office. He says there was no warning from the federal office in any way. “We attended a number of national conferences where the federal office of Head Start out of Washington D.C. was in attendance and each presentation that that individual made – he stated that Head Start programs would not be affected by a reduction in funding. So, we were really blindsided by this letter on Sept. 9 that notified us that not only was the number of funded slots being reduced but also our funding was going to be reduced and so, that is why we had to make the decision we made. Program, pg. 2