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As Growing Season Shifts, Farmworkers Face Tough School Choices

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Kids are back at school across California, except for one group. Preschoolers in Ventura County, about an hour from Los Angeles, have just finished the school year. It's a unique program that caters to the needs of parents who are migratory farmworkers. For years, this Head Start program has run from January to September, to match the local growing season. But now the agricultural calendar is changing -- and parents are facing tough choices.

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