When President Trump was elected, early education advocates and families with Head Start-enrolled children feared what it ...

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

Illinois Head Start officials reacted warily Wednesday to assurances from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that the administration of President Donald Trump supports continued funding for ...

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

Massive workforce reductions at HHS led to the closing of five Office of Head Start regional offices: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Seattle. Those offices are to be consolidated ...

Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday told Congress the Trump administration would not cut funding for Head Start, after layoffs at the agency and funding freezes raised fears the six-decade-old program would ...

“This all really comes from one experiment,” he says, referring to the 2005 Head Start Impact Study. “Students were randomized out of Head Start, and the ones randomized out were the control ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday told Congress the Trump administration would not cut funding for Head Start, after layoffs at the agency and funding freezes ...

Project Head Start was launched in 1965 after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty during his State of the Union speech. According to the Office of Head Start, the program was ...

AMHERST, Mass. (WWLP) – Community Action Pioneer Valley’s Head Start & Early Learning Programs (HS&ELP) marked 60 years of service with preschool graduation ceremonies this week and received ...

Evans said by combining Charleston and East Prairie together, they can reach full enrollment required by the office of Head Start, and they will have space to add Early Head Start classrooms to ...