Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61. Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a picture ...

Head Start has faced a series of escalating threats under the Trump administration. A recent administration budget proposal calls for a complete termination of the 60-year-old program. Eliminating the ...

Children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a federally-funded Head Start school in Woodbourne, N.Y., on Sept. 20, 2012. Children recite the Pledge of Allegiance at a federally-funded Head Start ...

Head Start programming for about 60,000 children is at risk if the federal government shutdown continues into November, leaders of the National Head Start Association and its state chapters say. On ...

The Trump administration could gut research on the effectiveness of child welfare programs, with plans to terminate dozens of university grants studying improvements to Head Start and child care ...

Supporters of Head Start are worried about the program’s future as it faces Trump administration calls for budgetary cuts ahead of the next school year. The free, federally funded program for ...