The program was launched 60 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson and serves hundreds of children in Marion and Polk counties.

LCC is waiting on approval of its 2025-2026 grant application, and Leasure said there is concern about whether it will be ...

Donald Trump's federal budget proposal did not include cuts to Head Start, but supporters of the early education program are ...

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

SEATTLE, Wash. – The Washington State agency overseeing Head Start child care has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. The agency claims its grants have been periodically frozen in ...

Head Start programs have received federal funding and mostly bipartisan support ... for weeks after the Trump administration’s federal freeze at the end of January, with one program in Aurora ...

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency came under bipartisan criticism Wednesday over his agency's actions to cancel ...

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First came the executive order to temporarily freeze all federal financial ... their members of Congress to plead for continued funding. Head Start centers have fought for their lives in the ...

In January, a government-wide funding freeze temporarily prevented some Head Start providers nationwide from making payroll. Then on April 1, Chicago-based staffers who worked for a range of ...

The agency that represents Head Start programs across Washington state is suing the Trump administration over efforts to eliminate the long-standing federal free preschool program. The lawsuit ...

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