Nearly 400 children will be impacted by the closures. Two local churches are stepping up to fill the need, but one more is ...

Head Start is all about education, and Dan DeBolt thinks Congress needs to be educated about the benefits of the preschool program. DeBolt and a handful of other Head Start parents visited the ...

WHITEHALL, Mont. — On April 8, a letter from the Rocky Mountain Development Council started circulating around Whitehall alerting people to the recommendation that their Head Start classroom would ...

Angela Douglas at first thought the email was spam, a fake. The Head Start her 4-year-old son attends couldn’t actually be closing, could it? But it was real. “I was just really upset. We were all ...

For 60 years, Head Start has provided child care for the most vulnerable children in the United States with little controversy. This year, though, politics came to the door of Head Start. Caught in ...

Nearly 450 young children in low-income families in Detroit will be without free childcare and early education this school year, following the closure of Focus: HOPE's Early Head Start and Head Start ...

3-year-old students paint in their classroom in February. At least four early childhood programs in KC could be at risk. Mark Henle The Republic / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Angela Douglas at ...