Yolanda Rubio, parent and teachers aid, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Head Start in Pasadena. Since President Trump took office in January, Head Start centers ...

Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

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SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Across the nation, schools are celebrating ‘Week of the Young Child’ and bringing awareness to early childhood education. Monday, April 7, was Music Monday at Head Start, bringing ...

Toddlers play at a Head Start-supported family daycare in New Haven, Connecticut. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Lady Bird Johnson visiting a Head Start center in 1966 Source: Wikimedia Commons Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and it has been going strong ever ...

Head Start would be eliminated under a draft fiscal 2026 budget that the Trump administration is preparing to send to Congress, according to a preliminary budget planning document acquired by K-12 ...

The Cruz family has experienced two sides of a prekindergarten journey: one that transitions from preschool into kindergarten and one that includes transitional kindergarten, or TK, before ...

School readiness program prepares young children for kindergarten Children from over 13,500 Escambia County families have been enrolled in Head Start since 1965 Families are also connected with ...

More than a month after UAMS was forced to close its six Head Start and Early Head Start centers due to the federal government shutdown, families will once again be able to drop off their children on ...

Seventeen Head Start providers in Clay, Jackson, and Platte counties will take on the financial risk of operating into November without the guarantee of reimbursement. The federal grants used to pay ...