The solution Maloney has proposed is to move the 32 infants and toddlers to the Old Jail building at 80 Main St., where CIDC already has a lease with Danbury to run one Early Head Start class and ...

Head Start is the poster child for public spending. The 60-year-old program and its newer offshoot, Early Head Start , currently provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children in ...

Early Head Start, which President Lyndon B. Johnson launched in 1965 as part of his “War on Poverty.” In my case, Head Start wasn’t just an educational program, but a lifeline.

Children in Head Start programs in the U.S. could be immediately impacted as early as October 1 if the federal government shuts down, the White House says.