The Rock Island-Milan School District’s Head Start program has been awarded a $3,277,131 grant from the Department of Health and Human Services. This funding will ensure the program will continue to ...

The destruction of the Head Start program, part of Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society,” would eliminate education and social services for nearly 800,000 children and result in the loss of a ...

What’s more, research on the effectiveness of Head Start, a 60-year-old program for children aged 3 to 5 established as part of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society programs, has found ...

I Ran Head Start. It’s Money Well Spent Combating Poverty. There’s proof this children’s education program is worth every taxpayer dollar. Head Start is Worth Every Penny Earlier this month ...

Head Start also supports families and expecting moms. As a federally funded program, Head Start provides no-cost comprehensive services to pregnant women and young children who meet income eligibility ...

The program, run locally by schools and nonprofit organizations, serves more than 750,000 children nationwide from low-income families, from birth to 5 years old.It also offers dental screenings and ...

In fiscal year 2023, the Head Start program was funded to serve 778,420 children. ... We have great data. We have a great track record. We have a lot of bipartisan support in Congress.

Community Action Pioneer Valley’s (CAPV) Head Start services could be facing setbacks if the Trump administration does not allocate money to the federal program next fiscal year — a very real ...

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. I am not ...

Head Start, a federal program founded in 1965 as part of the Johnson administration’s “war on poverty,” promotes school readiness for children from low-income families from birth to age 5.

The program began in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty and came up with Head Start as a way to help families most in need. "Early childhood education is so important.

Johnson knows the program firsthand—not just as an educator, but as a former Head Start student himself. "It’s about more than education—it’s about family," Johnson said.