Due to the government shutdown, Head Start, the iconic program designed to help children from low-income households improve school readiness, is now among the many federally funded services that have ...

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 judge on Monday ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to stop discouraging the use of words like “Black” and “disability” in grant applications, the Associated Press ...

When Lucy learned she could enroll Marcy in a free pre-K Head Start classroom at her neighborhood elementary school in North ...

Head Start teacher Sasha Fair helps two preschool children with a science experiment. Fair is worried about potential cuts to Head Start and social services that her students rely on. Credit: Jackie ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government ...

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 ...

At least one Head Start provider in South Carolina has been forced to temporarily close due to the ongoing federal government shutdown, leaving families in some rural counties without early childhood ...

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