Lady Bird Johnson visiting a Head Start center in 1966 Source: Wikimedia Commons Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and it has been going strong ever ...

Programs that provide pre-K instruction and day-care services for tens of thousands of children from low-income families cannot secure crucial federal money Congress approved for them months ...

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 ...

As the Trump administration weighs wiping out funding for Head Start, one question looms large in debates over the program’s future: Does it work? A draft of President Donald Trump’s pending budget ...