Illinois Head Start officials reacted warily to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assurances that the administration supports continued ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has told Congress the Trump administration would not cut funding ...

Head Start has quietly done what so many government programs promise but few deliver: strengthen Ohio families, support work, ...

Donald Trump's federal budget proposal did not include cuts to Head Start, but supporters of the early education program are concerned its funding could be cut during budget negotiations.

The program celebrates its 60th birthday this week, but some fear it could be the last based on a Trump administration budget ...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York sounded the alarm that the Trump administration was planning to eliminate Head Start ...

Jace was one of several toddlers Friday playing make believe, calculating animal shapes, coloring or pushing around a tiny ...

Last month, President Donald Trump’s early budget draft called for the elimination of Head Start, the free early-childhood ...

The city will find out more about how much Head Start funding it will receive this spring, and is also aiming to convert some seats into Early Head Start seats — serving younger children ...

It seems intuitively obvious that Head Start, as currently constituted, provides long-term benefits to children from low-income families. How could it not? A child who enters kindergarten with a ...

As of May 2025, the Trump administration has reversed its initial proposal to eliminate funding to Head Start programs. Head ...