3 days ago · The White House later clarified that the order was not supposed to include Head Start and Medicaid. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt last week called the Medicaid problems an outage and has not said whether the Head Start payment system was …

2 days ago · The White House said Head Start programs shouldn’t have been affected by the freeze, and a judge blocked the action amid a legal challenge to the freeze. Still, more than 45 programs serving ...

2 days ago · Jen Bailey, the executive director for the Reach Dane network of Head Start and Early Head Start programs in southern Wisconsin, used the federal government’s online payment portal to draw down ...

Jan 28, 2025 · As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children. ... Early Flowers Learning, which operates 17 Head Start preschools with ...

Jan 29, 2025 · The White House blamed an "outage" for locking out a wide range of organizations and agencies on Tuesday from the online systems responsible for drawing down federal health dollars.

3 days ago · The White House later said those two programs wouldn’t be affected. Then OMB rescinded the memo ― but White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said the intent of the memo remained and that the funding freeze was still on, despite the court order last week telling the government to delay the freeze.

Jan 15, 2025 · About one-third will serve 3- to 5-year-olds in Head Start preschool programs. The funds include awards to Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, programs serving migrant and seasonal farmworker families and American Indian and Alaska Native tribes.

3 days ago · While the White House later clarified that Head Start would not be targeted by the funding freeze and the OMB later rescinded memo, Head Start programs were temporarily unable to access the Payment Management System (PMS) to use their allocated federal funds. As a result, Head Start programs nationwide have not had funding disbursed in a timely ...

Mar 11, 2024 · Washington, D.C. – President Biden released his proposed FY 2025 budget on Monday, March 11, 2024, including $12,540,519,000 for Head Start and Early Head Start–an increase of $544 million over FY 23.

Aug 16, 2024 · The Biden administration is hiking pay for educators in the early childhood program Head Start as part of an effort to retain current employees and attract new ones in the midst of a workforce shortage.