The uncertainty surrounding Head Start today cannot help children who need a stable learning environment. But uncertainty is ...

T aking the first day of school pictures is a time-honored mom tradition. I still love looking back on my own first day of ...

The program was targeted by Project 2025 as having "little or no academic value." That couldn't be further from the truth ...

Inside Chicago homes, Head Start for the tiniest learners at risk as Trump’s budget takes shape The federal preschool program also supports infants up to age 3 in home-based child care centers.

If it sounds confusing, that’s because it is. If Head Start loses funding, there is no backstop of grant or private funding at the Child & Family Centers of Excellence in Waukesha.

Launched in 1965 as a comprehensive child development program, Head Start operates in all 50 states and has provided child care to more than 38 million children and their families over the last 60 ...

Dasha Drake, whose three kids attend Head Start, is also a teacher in the program. She said that without Head Start, “I wouldn’t have a job, so that affects us financially.

In fact, TODAY's own Craig Melvin was one of the kids who grew up with support from a Head Start program. “I’m a Head Start kid,” Craig told Jacob. “Before preschool I went to Head Start ...

Other preschool programs still at risk Though Head Start appears to be spared from Trump's crusade against government spending, other preschool and after-school programs may be in jeopardy as the ...

R.I.’s Head Start doesn’t just change lives, it builds futures With millions in federal funding at risk, Rhode Island could lose programs that service our most vulnerable children and families ...

Trump wants to cut Head Start, ending preschool in WV for 8,000 kids, 3,000 jobs The looming federal cuts would shutter a program that provides free education, meals and wraparound services to low ...