168 calendar days. Guam DOE also announced on Friday that its Head Start Program will have increased increased instructional days from 160 to 168.

Head Start helps provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children. But the Trump White House has the program on the chopping block.

A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic."

In Illinois, Head Start programs last year received over $400 million in federal funding, supporting 28,000 low-income children and families while employing more than 9,000 Illinois residents.

For a Black girl born in 1967 in small-town Mississippi, Head Start wasn’t just an educational program — it was the nurturing environment that was crucial to my future success.

Head Start is a program that supports children from birth to age 5 with education and health services. Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House ...