Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

State officials announced Tuesday that $2.25 million in funding would be committed toward the construction of a new Head Start facility in Riverside, which will replace a Southampton location that ...

Along the Canadian border in north central Washington’s Okanogan County, where the closest major city is at least 100 miles away and infrastructure is sparse, the Okanogan County Child Development ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head ...

As the federal-government shutdown enters its second month – now the second longest in U.S. history – it’s not just food ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (WGN) — Families with young children ...

GARY, Ind. (WLS) -- A federal freeze to Head Start programs disrupted the lives of local families that depend on them. Now that the funding has resumed, some parents in Northwest Indiana want to make ...

The Head Start program provides free early childhood education and support for low-income families. The federal government funds the program through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

is your neighborhood reporter for Flour Bluff and the South Side. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Parents who depend on the Head Start program in Nueces County are growing increasingly frustrated as the ...

New York City low-income families can continue to participate in city-run Head Start programs for at least another year after the Adams administration stepped in to fill a funding gap following the ...

Some Washington Head Start classrooms are preparing to close as the government shutdown continues.