Gov. Maura Healey recommended funding Head Start State Supplemental Grants at $18.5 million in her fiscal 2026 budget, the same amount as in fiscal 2025. The Massachusetts Head Start Association (MHSA ...

Many groups that rely on a federal payment portal started experiencing problems accessing funds last week. HHS says ...

Childcare center employees told BI that they're locked out of their federal grants, leaving them unable to pay staff and ...

Head Start preschools serving thousands of children around the country could be at risk of closing because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week ...

Wisconsin has 39 Head Start child care providers serving 16,000 children across the state and employing about 4,500 staff, said Jenny Mauer, executive director of the Wisconsin Head Start Association.

More than half a dozen child care centers that serve low-income families through the federal Head Start program have been waiting for more than a week to be repaid for expenses they’ve already ...

Children outside with a child care teacher at The Playing Field, a Madison child care center that participates in the federal Head Start program. (Courtesy of The Playing Field) More than half a dozen ...

In Mississippi’s Harrison County, staff at an Early Head Start program messaged parents to come pick up their children early after discovering they could not access the money to stay open. “Our ...

The White House blamed an "outage" for locking out a wide range of organizations and agencies on Tuesday from the online systems responsible for drawing down federal health dollars. Multiple state ...