Yolanda Rubio, parent and teachers aid, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Head Start in Pasadena. Since President Trump took office in January, Head Start centers ...

SHEBOYGAN – Agnes Kalubi wanted to enroll her daughter Luma in school after discovering she had a speech delay when she was about to turn 3. Born during the pandemic, she didn’t have a lot of ...

Students and teachers play with slime at Educare Los Angeles at Long Beach, which receives Head Start funding. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Dozens of Head Start programs nationwide — ...

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 ...

The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people.” ...

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 ...

A teacher helps a child with an art project in a rural Head Start classroom. Half of Head Start slots are in rural areas. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one ...

If enacted, the elimination of Head Start would undermine economic growth and exacerbate inequalities among families with young children. Project 2025: Exposing the Far-Right Assault on America ...

Lady Bird Johnson visiting a Head Start center in 1966 Source: Wikimedia Commons Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and it has been going strong ever ...