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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Albina Head Start is challenging a recent federal court ruling that could threaten the future of the Portland-based early education program, according to AHS.This stems from a ...

Layoffs in the Office of Head Start, a federal early childhood education program for low-income families, are leaving local child care providers feeling untethered. “It's like cutting off the ...