When Head Start turned 60 in May, it wasn’t just a milestone — it was a reminder of what’s possible with federal investment in families and communities. Amid uncertainty about Head Start’s future, the ...

The Trump administration is considering eliminating funding for the Head Start program, which is dedicated to free early child care services — a move that one advocate says would be "catastrophic." ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to remake Head Start, ordering it to stop purging ...

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration is considering a budget proposal that would zero out funding for Head Start, a program created during Lyndon B. Johnson's "war on poverty" that offers child care ...

Kennedy barred undocumented children from accessing Head Start programs in 2025. Head Start served over 800,000 children and pregnant mothers nationwide in 2022. Policy shift may save funds but risks ...

The funding and overall future of Head Start — which helps low-income families with child development and family support services — has been in the headlines for the better half of the year because of ...

LOWELL — Head Start is on the federal shutdown chopping block, and a coalition of leaders addressed the dire situation during a press conference Monday calling for an end to the government shutdown ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant ...

Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year. The free, federally funded program for ...

Local Head Start sites that provide early childhood education, child care and other services are ramping up for the start of a new school year on Aug. 18 despite uncertainty over possible federal ...

Madison Marino Doan is a senior research associate in the Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Imagine sending your child to a federally funded early-childhood program, thinking ...