Bucks County Intermediate Unit officials expressed concern earlier this year that the 5-year Head Start grant would not be ...

Despite bipartisan support, federal funding for Head Start and Early Head Start programs appeared to be in jeopardy this ...

Head Start, a federal early childhood education program, celebrated its 60th birthday Monday — and the YMCA of Metro Atlanta threw it a party. The YMCA, which is Georgia’s largest provider of ...

Head Start is a national anti-poverty program for children from families living below the national poverty line. Much of the program is focused on providing preschool for 4-year-olds and support for ...

Head Start is offered and funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, which saw large cuts in the budget proposal. Eliminating the program could close the 1,600 facilities nationwide.

Despite fears that Head Start might be terminated, funding for the preschool education and child care program is in the budget proposal the Trump administration has sent to Congress. ABC News ...

Head Start recently announced the 2025 recipient of its Janis Santos Scholarship. Three years ago, the organization launched this annual recognition, created by Santos, […] ...

In Ohio, more than 21,000 Head Start parents are employed, in school, or in a job training program and could not do so without Head Start services, said Ohio Head Start Association Inc. Executive ...

In Ohio, Head Start serves more than 27,000 pregnant women, infants, toddlers and preschoolers, according to the Ohio Head Start Association. More than 7,000 Ohioans are employed by Head Start and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday told Congress the Trump administration would not cut funding for Head Start, after layoffs at the agency ...

Launched in 1965 as a comprehensive child development program, Head Start operates in all 50 states and has provided child care to more than 38 million children and their families over the last 60 ...

The Seattle Office of Head Start has been closed and all employees there have been placed on leave and notified they’ll be terminated, part of a massive wave of layoffs at the U.S. Department of ...