Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House's 2026 plan could cut all of ... The White House's fiscal year 2026 funding blueprint does not allocate ...

The White House reneged on a plan to zero out funding for Head Start, a preschool program relied on by hundreds of thousands of low-income families.

This Sunday is the 60th anniversary of Head Start, the federally funded preschool program supporting more than 12,000 children, up to age four, in Washington and nearly 800,000 children across the ...