Tens of thousands of children and families could be affected by dozens of Head Start programs potentially closing if the federal government shutdown extends past Nov. 1. About 134 programs across 41 ...

Toddlers play at a Head Start-supported family daycare in New Haven, Connecticut. Credit: Anya Kamenetz for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: education. Sign up for our ...

Lady Bird Johnson visiting a Head Start center in 1966 Source: Wikimedia Commons Head Start was founded in 1965 as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty and it has been going strong ever ...

Vital federal funding is on the way for Head Start centers that were thrown into crisis by the government shutdown, but it could take time before some children who rely on the federal program can ...

The government shutdown is triggering a wave of closures of Head Start centers, leaving working parents scrambling for child care and shutting some of the nation's neediest children out of preschool.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark.- Families in Central Arkansas can now apply for early childhood education programs through the University ...