Family Educator Lisa Benson-Nuyen, addresses her students in a circle in the Northern Lights classroom at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center, Monday, May 6, 2024, in Wasilla, ...

The Trump administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start, the early education program that serves some of the nation's neediest preschoolers. Backers of ...

A lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to “dismantle” Head Start programs in Illinois and across the country has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Head ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Yolanda Rubio, parent and teachers aid, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Head Start in ...

Programs that provide pre-K instruction and day-care services for tens of thousands of children from low-income families cannot secure crucial federal money Congress approved for them months ...

Interested in your child attending a Save the Children Head Start program? We offer programs in 6 states. Apply now! Head Start is a federally funded program that provides a vital safety net for our ...

A number of federal changes to the Office of Head Start this year are having local impacts. The federal Head Start program provides early childhood education and wraparound services to qualifying ...

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating the ...