Early education and care providers serving low-income families are requesting a funding boost to support staff wage increases ...

The Manhasset-Great Neck EOC was facing the possibility of having to close down it's Head Start program after a glitch left ...

Leaders at a Bloomington-based early childhood program for low-income families say they’ve stabilized the agency and begun ...

For Head Start providers who haven't been able to access the system they depend on, the last week has been "really emotional, ...

A broad federal funding freeze announced by the Trump administration last week, and blocked by a pair of judges, is destabilizing a wide range of programs despite the court interventions. Some ...

News Photo by Darby Hinkley Children play games at one of the tables at Thursday’s Northeast Michigan Community Service Agency Family Fun Night at the APlex. Pictured, from left, are Joey Davis ...

The confusion left some Head Start centers weighing whether to close. Early Flowers Learning, which operates 17 Head Start preschools with 600 students in southwestern Michigan, announced it would not ...

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 ...

Early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families. President Donald Trump signs ...

Due to the Executive Order signed by President Trump on January 27, 2025, we have to close all of our Head Start sites and services until further notice. CACS Head Start will inform families if ...

Head Start is a federally funded program that provides preschool for low-income children along with some support services for their families. It served 778,000 children in 2023. The message about the ...

These are real events uncovered in a recent Government Accountability Office report about the Head Start program—a cornerstone of early-childhood education in the United States. Commissioned by ...