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.

For 60 years, Head Start has provided child care for the most vulnerable children in the United States with little controversy. This report was first published by The 19th. The Illuminator is a ...

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 ...

School readiness program prepares young children for kindergarten Children from over 13,500 Escambia County families have been enrolled in Head Start since 1965 Families are also connected with ...

Beginning Nov. 1, more than 65,000 children will be at risk of losing access to Head Start, the federal early-learning program for low-income families. That’s because federal funding for individual ...