President Donald Trump's administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start.

But researchers and Head Start advocates say relying on that study fails to recognize its limitations, ignores promising findings from other research, and doesn’t take into account more recent efforts to strengthen the program. A cheaper, more effective way forward would be to strengthen Head Start rather than ending it altogether, they said.

More than 50,000 children across New York State could be impacted, including 1,200 children just in Buffalo and Niagara Counties.