Though Head Start, a free, federally funded child care program, is no longer facing complete elimination, Georgia parents and ...

The Danville Head Start Pre-K program is celebrating a milestone birthday. The program has been running for 60 years and serves not only Danville but all of Montour ...

The federal program launched in 1965 as an eight-week summer program, but now offers various services like free childcare ...

And the program also provides extra funds she can use to get back up and running if, for example, the furnace needs fixing. But Head Start is now facing funding challenges that go far beyond a ...

Four area Head Start programs will close in May, affecting 301 students ages 6 weeks to 5 years old. Dozens of staff members may also lose their jobs. "I was blindsided," said a mother who didn't ...

Head Start is a program that supports children from birth to age 5 with education and health services. Head Start was founded by Lyndon B. Johnson as a part of the war on poverty. The White House ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is considering a budget proposal that would zero out funding for Head Start, a program created during Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" that offers child ...

Wisconsin Head Start programs have received $36 million less in federal funding this year compared to the same period last year. Funding delays and office closures are causing uncertainty and ...

Head Start program directors and families are deeply concerned over a Trump administration proposal to cut its funding completely. The proposed change would impact more than 20,000 children and ...