The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic." ...

Sophia Rodriguez's husband Dan plays with toy swords with their 4-year-old daughter while he holds their 10-month-old son at home in Chula Vista on March 8, 2022. Earlier that year the couple was ...

The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs that serve more than 58,000 of the nation’s neediest preschoolers are facing a cutoff of federal funding at the end of the month because of the government ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation’s neediest children out of preschool.

Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year. The free, federally funded program for ...

Head Start programs provide early childhood education, health, nutrition, and parent involvement services to low-income families. Federal funding for Head Start was uncertain earlier this year but ...