Head Start has helped millions of children and families across America build better futures. Recently, however, it was reported that the White House was considering eliminating Head Start funding for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- For years, preschoolers at Building Blocks Learning Academy in Englewood have learned, through Earth Day activities, to invest in their environment. But the owner of the school says ...

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 ...

(This story has been updated with details on the federal government shutdown's potential end.) Funding for Escambia County’s Head Start program is facing some uncertainty due to the federal government ...

The government shutdown is threatening Head Start programs in Georgia, putting 6,500 children in the programs at risk of losing federal funding. A year’s worth of funding was supposed to start Nov. 1.

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 ...

Most Head Start classrooms are open, but others are expected to close on Monday as they run out of funding options.

Thirty first-year students got a head start on college life this fall through a new program at the University of Pittsburgh ...

The Rhode Island Department of Human Services considered eliminating funding for the preschool program in next year’s budget.

Hundreds of Detroit families are losing access to Head Start services after the federal government decided to pull a grant that had financed the early child education and development program at a ...