A little-hyped effort to gut and likely shut down Project Head Start composes one of the oddest and perhaps cruelest spending cuts mandated by President Trump and his unofficial – but very active ...

The Head Start program provides free early childhood education and support for low-income families. The federal government funds the program through the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...

Cherokee Nation has opened the tribe's new Jay Head Start facility. The 9,300-square-foot facility is a $6.5 million dollar investment into early childhood education.

The Trump Administration is threatening the future of Head Start – a program that has provided critical and evidence-based services—from education to childcare— to more than 40 million children and ...

Head Start preschool programs for low-income U.S. children are scrambling to cope with funding cuts and delays, as they feel the squeeze of President Donald Trump's cost-cutting drive.

Strauch told lawmakers more than 11,000 children and families receive services at 32 Early Head Start centers in Oregon. In Marion and Polk counties, 724 children receive services through Head Start.

From prenatal to kindergarten. Head Start, launched in 1965, served about 800,000 children last year, including 83,000 in California. Originally a preschool, the program now serves children from ...

Head Start and Early Head Start are provided by Community Services for Children to nearly 1,500 Lehigh Valley families. Documents leaked last month indicated the programs could be eliminated in upc… ...

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 ...

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) said in a recent press release that Head Start and Early Head Start programs are scheduled to close at the end of May because of federal funding cuts. … ...

COMMENTARY R.I.’s Head Start doesn’t just change lives, it builds futures With millions in federal funding at risk, Rhode Island could lose programs that service our most vulnerable children ...