Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

Arabella Miera, an assistant teacher at an Early Head Start program in Pueblo, Colorado, plays with children in this photo from 2021. Head Start programs are funded using an outdated formula that ...

Flags line a street in Troy, Ohio. Families in small towns and rural areas are particularly reliant on Head Start, the free federal child care program, but recent turmoil in the program has them ...

Project 2025, a conservative coalition's plan for a future U.S. Republican presidency, proposes eliminating the federal Head Start education program. "Project 2025 cuts the Head Start program," one X ...

Head Start is celebrating its 60th year, but the program has faced funding disruptions, a federal government shutdown and ...

Head Start locations across the country are warning that their programs will be imperiled — potentially throwing tens of thousands of preschool children and their families into limbo — if the ...

The Escambia Children's Trust has stepped up to help CAPC's Head Start program retain qualified teachers and other staff with a $1.1 million grant.

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Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development ...

Attention Parents!! The Cayuga Seneca Community Action Agency is currently accepting applications for the Early Head Start program! This is a free, federally funded community-based program for income ...

Dozens of Head Start programs nationwide — including at least six in California — have experienced delays in accessing government money for payroll and expenses in the week since the Trump ...