Government shutdown threatens Head Start programs nationwide. Federal funding cuts could close early childhood education ...

A free child care program serving low-income families in Santa Cruz County will remain open through October after securing ...

For 60 years, Head Start has provided child care for the most vulnerable children in the United States with little controversy. This year, though, politics came to the door of Head Start. Caught in ...

Video: Parents and a Head Start teacher express concern about potential budget cuts to the program. Head Start supporters were relieved when President Donald Trump did not include funding cuts to the ...

Federal funding for Iowa's Head Start programs has remained flat for two years, even as Biden-era federal mandates require ...

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will restrict immigrants in the country illegally from enrolling in Head Start, a federally funded preschool program, the Department of Health and Human Services ...

A federal court stopped the administration’s attempt to exclude some immigrant children from the nation’s largest early ...

A number of federal changes to the Office of Head Start this year are having local impacts. The federal Head Start program ...

The Inspire Development Centers in Sunnyside is indefinitely closing its Head Start and Early Head Start programs at the end of business day because of loss of federal funding. The closure will impact ...

Head Start helps prepare children ages 3-5 for school, while also connecting parents to resources like health and social services.

Children eat lunch at BakerRipley’s Christine Smith Head Start center in Richmond. The Houston-area nonprofit BakerRipley is expanding its “Head Start” and “Early Head Start” programs in Fort Bend ...