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.

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." ...

California receives $1.5 billion annually for Head Start. The program provides child care, education, medical care and nutritious meals to more than 80,000 low-income children from birth through ...

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.

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 ...

It's not clear if Head Start will be an option once the next school year starts. "Right now, we don't know what funding will look like on July 1. We haven't heard from the federal government about ...

Forty-one Century Head Start students will be moving to the early education program's Molino center in two weeks. The Community Action Program Committee will shut down the Head Start Century center at ...

News; K-12 education; Head Start sues Trump administration over DEI confusion, grant freezes to child care program April 28, 2025 Updated Mon., April 28, 2025 at 8:42 p.m. The Martin Luther King ...

Head Start, a federal early childhood education program, celebrated its 60th birthday Monday — and the YMCA of Metro Atlanta threw it a party. The YMCA, which is Georgia’s largest provider of ...

Wisconsin Head Start programs have received $36 million less in federal funding this year compared to the same period last year. Funding delays and office closures are causing uncertainty and ...

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 ...