Early Head Start teacher Skyler Chipman cares for a child during naptime at Promise Early Education Center in Lewiston in June 2023. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) Some of Maine’s most vulnerable children ...

When Lucy learned she could enroll Marcy in a free pre-K Head Start classroom at her neighborhood elementary school in North ...

Due to the government shutdown, Head Start, the iconic program designed to help children from low-income households improve school readiness, is now among the many federally funded services that have ...

Head Start providers nationwide are experiencing intermittent funding delays, administrative challenges, and existential fears in the wake of federal staffing reductions and policy changes that have ...