Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Although federal funding is at risk for hundreds of Head Start early childhood education programs nationwide, local leaders said ...

Head Start is turning 60. The federal child care program may not make it to 61. Bright morning sun is streaming through the windows of Sandra Dill's New Haven, Connecticut, home as she reads a picture ...

Head Start programming for about 60,000 children is at risk if the federal government shutdown continues into November, leaders of the National Head Start Association and its state chapters say. On ...

Head Start teachers in California are speaking out about the chaos prompted not only by the government shutdown but by cuts to safety net programs. The agreement to end the shutdown only funds the ...