Head Start is a federally funded early childhood education program that provides comprehensive services — including education ...

A coalition of parents and Head Start providers moved to update their lawsuit against the Trump administration Tuesday in response to a drastic federal policy shift that bars many immigrant families ...

When Jessica Fullilove enrolled her 4-year-old son at Geminus Head Start-St. Mark Early Learning Academy in Glen Park, she expected a strong educational foundation. But the staff went far beyond that.

With the ongoing state budget impasse plus a federal government shutdown, concerns are growing in many industries, including education.

As President Trump’s deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development and director of the Office of Head Start during his first term, I have seen firsthand the positive impact of his ...

October is Head Start Awareness Month. There is no singular look to Head Start — its federal-to-local structure has served ...

Head Start is all about education, and Dan DeBolt thinks Congress needs to be educated about the benefits of the preschool program. DeBolt and a handful of other Head Start parents visited the ...

AND OF COURSE, WE’LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN THAT HAPPENS. NEW ANSWERS TONIGHT FOR HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES HERE IN THE METRO FOR HEAD START PROGRAMS AT THE YMCA ARE CLOSING IN MAY. AND NOW SOME PARENTS ARE ...

Home-based services promote secure parent-child relationships and help parents provide high-quality early learning experiences in language, literacy, mathematics, social and emotional functioning, ...

A new era began this week with the city-run, federally funded Head Start program. After three decades of contracting with Parent Child, Inc., or PCI, to run the program, the city farmed the Head Start ...

Seventeen Head Start sites, which provide services to young children across the metro, are set to close Nov. 1.

Among Kansas City’s Head Start parents, 1,351 are employed, 169 are in training programs, and 168 are enrolled in school.