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

Leaders of dozens of Head Start preschools said they might need to close temporarily because they remain locked out of their ...

McCormick responded with the head-spinning suggestion that the country’s child labor laws are too restrictive and that plenty ...

Head Start is a federally funded program that provides no cost comprehensive services to pregnant women and children ages birth to 5 and their families who: Meet income eligibility requirements Have ...

Some Head Start programs are struggling to continue services as funding delays hit. The delays come after Trump walked back ...

Childcare center employees told BI that they're locked out of their federal grants, leaving them unable to pay staff and ...

Ga., on Tuesday defended the impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some ...

Head Start has been something of a sacred cow in Washington since its creation in 1965. The $12.3 billion federal program provides pre-school services to nearly 790,000 low-income children each year.

Children outside with a child care teacher at The Playing Field, a Madison child care center that participates in the federal Head Start program. (Courtesy of The Playing Field) More than half a dozen ...