Head Start helps to break the intergenerational cycle of poverty ... “My staff is operating on a shoestring — if one staff member calls in sick, I will likely have to close the classroom that day ...

We equip our teachers with research-based curriculums and classroom materials that help stimulate young minds and activate little hands and bodies. As one of a few multi-state Head Start providers in ...

Head Start is a national anti-poverty program for children from families living below the national poverty line. Much of the program is focused on providing preschool for 4-year-olds and support for ...

Some providers of pre-K and child care have waited more than a week for federal reimbursements that typically arrive in 24 ...

Teacher Dometila Casillas leads her class in song and dance during a Head Start preschool program in Sacramento on Jan. 8, 2024. A change in income-eligibility standards means that more families ...

“Disruptions in services impact entire communities – from the children who are unable to be in the classroom, to the parents who are unable to work due to the lack of childcare, and Head Start ...

Although this is not a first come, first served program, and notification of classroom placements does not begin until June 1 ...