Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal payments for Head Start this year were significantly behind schedule compared with 2024 and that violated the Impoundment ...

Head Start, a free learning program for children from low-income families, is next on the chopping block as the government shutdown nears record length. More than 100 Head Start programs are in danger ...

Head Start locations across the country are warning that their programs will be imperiled — potentially throwing tens of thousands of preschool children and their families into limbo — if the ...

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - The government is nearing one month of being shut down. That means the future is uncertain for furloughed employees and government-funded programs like Early Head Start.

A bill recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives hopes to expand the Head Start program’s ability to serve ...

LOWELL — Head Start is on the federal shutdown chopping block, and a coalition of leaders addressed the dire situation during a press conference Monday calling for an end to the government shutdown ...

Head Start program will continue to serve working class families after Dec. 1, despite the status of a $7.6 million federal grant being unknown Program serves 469 children in Escambia County. Another ...

More than $25 million in federal funding, including $8 million to the Tri-County Opportunities Council in Rock Falls, has ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced that its Head Start program will be closing due to a lack of federal funding impacting 446 children and their ...

After being closed temporarily due to the recent government shutdown, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences announced Head Start and Early Head Start centers will reopen on Tuesday, as ...