Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government ...

Due to the government shutdown, Head Start, the iconic program designed to help children from low-income households improve school readiness, is now among the many federally funded services that have ...

As the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues, early childhood education programs in Chicago that rely on ...

Head Start is on the federal shutdown chopping block, and a coalition of leaders addressed the dire situation during a press ...

Malaya Peterkin and other preschoolers sat in bright blue chairs around a table on a recent afternoon, listening raptly to teacher Rachel Cepeda read a book about butterflies. Afterward, the children ...

Community Teamwork Inc. announced that it has been forced to furlough, reduce and eliminate staff positions due to the ...

Head Start student Montrell Landfair, 4, looks around as he brushes his teeth after breakfast with his classmates during Head Start class at Truman Early Learning Center in Cedar Rapids on Monday.

The national Head Start organization said nearly 3,000 Massachusetts children could be impacted at the start of the month.Six Head Start<a class="excerpt-read-more" href=" More ...

Due to the government shutdown, federal funding for Head Start officially expired on October 31. New grant awards are frozen, ...

She’s only 3 years old, but that didn’t stop Sofia Quiroz from enjoying a day out after traveling from Chicago Heights to the ...

A $12.6 million federal grant is helping expand the early childhood program Head Start in Howard County. The Community Action Council of Howard County, the county's Head Start program provider, ...