Head Start preschool programs for low-income U.S. children are scrambling to cope with funding cuts and delays, as they feel ...

The program that serves about 22,000 children in Georgia. Advocates and families feared the White House would eliminate funding but a more recent budget left it intact.

BROOKLYN, Ohio -- Step Forward recently opened the Memphis Early Learning Center at 10991 Memphis Ave. in Brooklyn. The new ...

Some local families that rely on the Bell City Head Start program are wondering what to do after it permanently closes its ...

Calls for government to fund universal preschool and expand early childhood education programs seem to never cease. Project Head Start was started in 1965 as part of the War on Poverty.

Karen Locken, left, plays with children in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Early Head Start Center in Pasadena, California, on April 18, 2025. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times ...

"At a time when we need solutions to workforce shortages, early education access, and economic disparities, cutting Head Start would be a step backward," said Wanda Minick, FHSA Executive Director.

When an early draft of President Trump's budget proposal threatened to defund the Head Start program that helps support nearly 800,000 children and their families nationwide, advocates like ...

WASHINGTON — Head Start has been spared from proposed spending cuts in President Donald Trump’s initial budget request released Friday. It’s a relief for providers who feared they would be ...