Our country is facing an urgent crisis: the early-educator shortage. Earlier this year, the National Head Start Association reported that 19% of Head Start staff positions were vacant nationwide, ...

Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a picture book about penguins to a room full of busy toddlers. While listening, the kids ...

Viviana Banuelos, teacher, center, plays with a child in the Early Head Start program at Pacific Clinics Head Start in Pasadena on April 18. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) The American Civil ...

Family Educator Lisa Benson-Nuyen, addresses her students in a circle in the Northern Lights classroom at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center in Wasilla, Alaska. (AP Photo/Lindsey ...

Late this Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human Services — now run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — announced that five regional administrative offices for Head Start’s early education and day care ...

A West Point-based children’s nonprofit that provides services to hundreds of needy families in seven rural counties has filed an appeal against the termination of its federal funding by the Office of ...

The Administration of Children and Families is suspending federal financial assistance for the MPS Head Start program for 30 days.According to a release from MPS, the school district received a notice ...

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 ...

2025 marks the 60th anniversary of Head Start. To celebrate, the Willmar location of the program hosted a birthday party and family fun event at Robbins Island Regional Park. Natalie Carranza, left, ...

MACON, Ga. — All over central Georgia, several kids have the opportunity to get a "head start" from a young age. The Head Start program is designed to "support children's growth from birth to age 5 ...

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61. Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a picture ...