LACEY, Wash. - The ongoing government shutdown is affecting Head Start programs across the nation, with 20 programs having fully or partially closed, including one in Washington state. The current ...

A federally funded Head Start child care program run by Encompass Community Services has temporarily closed due to the ongoing government shutdown, leaving 250 children without care and 91 staff ...

EdSource · From housing to basketball, Fresno schools invest in the whole child Four Head Start programs serving nearly 1,000 of California’s most vulnerable children will not receive their annual ...

MOULTRIE – October was “Head Start Awareness Month” and, as the month came to a close, the ongoing government shut-down left many Head Start programs across the nation concerned as to whether they ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - Education, child care and nutrition services for tens of thousands of young American children will begin to be cut off on Saturday, as Republicans and Democrats in ...

TEMPE — The Head Start childcare program is at risk of losing funding due to the ongoing government shutdown — a move that could leave thousands of children across Arizona without care. Head Start ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - With no end in sight to the government shutdown, some Head Start programs across the country are facing a future without federal funding in the weeks ahead. In southeast ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) announced that its Head Start program will be closing due to a lack of federal funding impacting 446 children and their ...

Union County is still without a Head Start program, but officials hope to have it resume by Dec. 1. The program was shut down in August when federal funding was pulled from the Mississippi Action for ...

WASHINGTON, DC — TWO NY CONGRESSMEMBERS’ BIPARTISAN BILL TO EXTEND THE HEALTHY START PROGRAM PASSED UNANIMOUSLY on Wednesday, Sept. 17, from the House Committee on Energy & Commerce 49-0. Reps. Nicole ...

The city’s Head Start preschool programs will not be required to close this school year, but the change injected fresh uncertainty into an unsettled early childhood system. By Troy Closson New York ...

Mike Carlson, 19, teaches pre-school age children Yurok words at the Klamath Family Head Start program. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Truthout is a vital news source and a ...