Head Start and Early Head Start programs are designed to holistically nurture the educational, health, and socio-emotional welfare of children from low-income backgrounds. These programs are the ...

Head Start programming for about 60,000 children is at risk if the federal government shutdown continues into November, leaders of the National Head Start Association and its state chapters say. On ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 65,000 Head Start children and their families are at risk of losing access to critical services if the ongoing federal ...

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 ...

Even though the government has reopened, Head Start early learning programs across the U.S. are still not fully up and running. While most classrooms are open, 140 Head Start programs — some ...

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, ...

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Rapides Parish, LA (July 22, 2025) – Save the Children Head Start, which has operated Head Start and Early Head Start programs since 2011 in rural communities across America, has further expanded ...