Among the preschools closing as of Monday are 24 Migrant and Seasonal Head Start centers spread across five states. Those ...

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

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," one X ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government ...

More than 600,000 Kentuckians rely on SNAP benefits, including two-thirds of the Jefferson County families one organization ...

Children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a federally-funded Head Start school in Woodbourne, N.Y., on Sept. 20, 2012. Children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a federally-funded Head Start ...

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic." ...

The Trump administration will temporarily pause enforcement of a new policy that prohibits undocumented children from attending Head Start and keeps undocumented high schoolers out of dual enrollment ...

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 and ...