Staff at Project NOW Head Start are warning that proposed federal changes to Medicaid and SNAP could jeopardize services for ...

Managers of Project NOW Head Start programs in the Quad Cities are concerned what federal spending cuts will do to the early ...

Project 2025, a conservative coalition's plan for a future U.S. Republican presidency, proposes eliminating the federal Head Start education program. "Project 2025 cuts the Head Start program ...

About 15,000 children in Washington receive early learning and family support services from Head Start, the federal preschool ...

President Donald Trump's administration is proposing a ban on federally funded programs for anyone who can’t show legal ...

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 ...

The program was targeted by Project 2025 as having "little or no academic value." That couldn't be further from the truth ...

For a Black girl born in 1967 in small-town Mississippi, Head Start wasn’t just an educational program — it was the nurturing environment that was crucial to my future success.

May 18, 1965. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces Project Head Start during a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden. The program launched that summer with 8 weeks of classes, serving more than ...

This story was originally published on K-12 Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily K-12 Dive newsletter. In its six decades of existence, Head Start has experienced ...