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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

Conservatives are right to want to rein — or even eliminate — a Department of Education they describe as bloated, ideological and ineffective. However, that battle plays out, eliminating Head Start ...

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 ...