We equip our teachers with research-based curriculums and classroom materials that help stimulate young minds and activate little hands and bodies. October is Head Start Awareness Month, and it hopes ...

Head Start has been celebrating 60 years of supporting low-income families and providing young children with the tools to ...

A teacher helps a child with an art project in a rural Head Start classroom. Half of Head Start slots are in rural areas. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report is a national ...

Whitehall’s Head Start classroom will close in June after two groups’ vote, losing the rural town 13 child care slots. “We knew what was going to happen,” Head Start parent Sadie Gooch ...

Federal databases show Head Start centers across the U.S. have received nearly $1 billion less in federal funding compared ...

FILE - Family Educator Lisa Benson-Nuyen, addresses her students in a circle in the Northern Lights classroom at the Meadow Lakes CCS Early Learning, a Head Start center, Monday, May 6 ...

kids kicked out of the classroom, teachers losing their jobs and entire communities losing out.” Closing the central Washington Head Start centers means families will lose access to high-quality ...