The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.

Millions of Americans continue to feel the effects of the ongoing government shutdown, including tens of thousands of ...

As the federal government shutdown continues, many childcare centers in Louisiana are increasingly worried about funding for ...

Head Start, a program that provides early education support, could face further disruptions in November if the government is ...

If the government shutdown isn't resolved by Nov. 1, some 65,000 low-income children will be at-risk of losing access to Head Start child care and early learning.

Solangel, a Venezuelan immigrant, is the mother of a 7-year-old who blossomed at the Head Start preschool program he attended in a Denver suburb. He received therapy for his speech delay, came out of ...

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

Nine Michigan early child care and education programs, supporting close to 3,000 young kids, are at risk of losing the funds they need to stay open as the federal government shutdown rolls on. Head ...

LEHIGHTON, Pa. — The classrooms at Pathstone Carbon Child Development Center on North Third Street in Lehighton are filled with little ones learning the skills they need for kindergarten. "And I think ...