WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has reversed course on a proposal to cut all funding for Head Start, a preschool and child-care program relied on by hundreds of thousands of low-income ...

White House Proposes Eliminating Head Start Funding as Part of Sweeping Budget Cuts The Trump administration is asking Congress to eliminate funding for Head Start, a move that would cut early ...

The official, who was not authorized to discuss the plan publicly, said the White House's fiscal year 2026 funding blueprint does not allocate any money toward Head Start and lists it among many ...

which oversees Head Start. It is still in a highly preliminary phase as the White House prepares to send Congress its budget request for the 2026 fiscal year. It is not clear if the proposed cuts ...

On April 28, a group of state Head Start associations and regional providers sued the Trump administration in federal court over the reportedly planned cuts. The plaintiffs argued the White House ...

FILE - Students help put away supplies at the end of a reading and writing lesson at the Head Start program run by Easterseals, an organization that gets about a third of its funding from the ...