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 ...

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 ...

The Sheboygan program hasn’t received its government funding this week. Mass confusion came after President Trump announced a ...

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.

Rich McCormick's defense of how Trump's federal funding freeze could affect Head Start, by saying kids don't deserve "free lunch," is unbelievably cruel.

The Department of Health and Human Services provides grants to more than 1,600 Head Start organizations around the country to provide services to families with young children, including education.