Head Start helps provide preschool and child care for roughly 800,000 children. But the Trump White House has the program on the chopping block.

Head Start, the federal program that provides education, nutrition and health services to low-income children and their families, is not adequately funded and is administered so differently from ...

Head Start, the most sacrosanct federal education program, doesn’t work. That’s the finding of a sophisticated study just released by President Obama’s Department of Health and Hu… ...

A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic." ...

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Head Start is offered and funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, which saw large cuts in the budget proposal. Eliminating the program could close the 1,600 facilities nationwide.

Project 2025, a conservative coalition's plan for a future U.S. Republican presidency, proposes eliminating the federal Head Start education program. "Project 2025 cuts the Head Start program ...

Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal money compared with this time last year, and a lag in funding this week has caused some preschool classrooms ...

A draft of President Donald Trump’s budget proposal for the coming fiscal year calls for ending support for Head Start, which provides early childhood education and other services to nearly ...

Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal money compared with this time last year — and a lag in funding this week has caused some preschool classrooms ...